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Title: Macroprudential Policy, Mortgage Cycles and Distributional Effects: Evidence from the UK

Author(s): Jos� Luis Peydr�, Francesc Rodriguez Tous, Jagdish Tripathy and Arzu Uluc

Publication Date: September 2020

Keyword(s): Credit cycles, House Prices, inequality, macroprudential policy and Mortgages

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: Macroprudential regulators worldwide have introduced regulations to limit household leverage in light of existing evidence which suggests that high leverage is associated with household distress during crisis. We analyse the distributional effects of such a macroprudential policy on mortgage and house price cycles. For identification, we exploit the universe of UK mortgages and a 15%-limit imposed in 2014 on lenders-not households-for high loan-to-income ratio (LTI) mortgages. Despite some regulatory arbitrage (e.g. increases in LTV and average loan size), more-constrained lenders issue fewer high-LTI mortgages. Partial substitution by less-constrained lenders leads to overall credit contraction to low-income borrowers in local-areas more exposed to constrained-lenders, lowering house price growth. Following the Brexit referendum (which led to house-price correction), the 2014-policy strongly implies-via lower pre-correction debt-better house prices and mortgage defaults during an episode of house price correction.

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Peydr�, J, Rodriguez Tous, F, Tripathy, J and Uluc, A. 2020. 'Macroprudential Policy, Mortgage Cycles and Distributional Effects: Evidence from the UK '. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15275