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Mortgage Supply and Housing Rents

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2018-12
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3301
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We show that a contraction of mortgage supply after the Great Recession has increased housing rents. Our empirical strategy exploits heterogeneity in MSAs’ exposure to regulatory shocks experienced by lenders over the 2010–2014 period. Tighter lending standards have increased demand for rental housing, leading to higher rents, depressed homeownership rates and an increase in rental supply. Absent the credit supply contraction, annual rent growth would have been 2.1 percentage points lower over 2010–2014 in MSAs in which lending standards rose from their 2008 levels. Received December 21, 2016; editorial decision October 24, 2017 by Editor Philip Strahan. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.
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Gete, P., & Reher, M. (2018). Mortgage supply and housing rents. The Review of Financial Studies, 31(12), 4884-4911. https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhx145
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