How do House Prices Respond to Mortgage Supply?
利用意大利城市2003-2015年数据，构建外生抵押贷款供给指标，发现抵押贷款对房价有显著正向因果效应，弹性约0.1，且在住房周期扩张阶段和供给弹性低的城市影响更大。
Abstract We examine the impact of household mortgages on house prices. Using biannual data on Italian cities in the period 2003–2015, we build an exogenous and fully data-driven indicator of mortgage supply stance and use it as instrument for actual extended mortgages. Our results indicate that mortgages have a positive and significant causal effect on house prices, with an estimated elasticity of around 0.1. The estimated effect is larger during the expansionary phase of the housing cycle. We also find evidence of significant spatial heterogeneity: mortgages push real estate values more in cities where the housing supply curve is less elastic or households are more dependent on external finance.