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The Sensitivity of Housing Demand to Financing Conditions: Evidence from a Survey

Fuster, Andreas  
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Zafar, Basit
February 2021
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Measuring the sensitivity of housing demand to mortgage rates and available leverage is challenging because there is generally no exogenous variation in these variables. This paper circumvents this issue by designing a strategic survey in which respondents report their willingness to pay (WTP) for a home under different financing scenarios. Relaxation of down payment constraints or an exogenous increase in nonhousing wealth has large effects on WTP, especially for poorer and more credit-constrained households. However, changing the mortgage rate has only moderate effects on WTP. These findings have implications for theoretical models of house price determination and for policy.

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research article
DOI
10.1257/pol.20150337
Author(s)
Fuster, Andreas  
•
Zafar, Basit
Date Issued

2021-02

Published in
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Volume

13

Issue

1

Start page

231

End page

265

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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SFI-AF  
Available on Infoscience
December 7, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/183722
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