Borrower heterogeneity within a risky mortgage-lending market

Maria Teresa Punzi and Katrin Rabitsch

Department of Economics Working Papers from Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics

Abstract: We propose a model of a risky mortgage-lending market in which we take explicit account of heterogeneity in household borrowing conditions, by introducing two borrower types: one with a low loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, one with a high LTV ratio, calibrated to U.S. data. We use such framework to study a deleveraging shock, modeled as an increase in housing investment risk, that falls more strongly on, and produces a larger contraction in credit for high-LTV type borrowers, as in the data. We find that this deleveraging experience produces significant aggregate effects on output and consumption, and that the contractionary effects are orders of magnitudes higher in a model version that takes account of borrower heterogeneity, compared to a more standard model version with a representative borrower.

Keywords: Borrowing Constraints; Loan-to-Value ratio; Heterogeneity; Financial Amplification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E23 E32 E44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02
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