The impact of mortgage interest-rate subsidies on household borrowing [An article from: Journal of Public Economics]
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The responsiveness of household borrowing to changes in the interest rate is a crucial parameter for assessing public policies aimed at promoting saving. We estimate the effect on household borrowing of a reform of a program that subsidized interest rates on mortgages signed by medium- and low-income households. The reform established a ceiling in the price of the house that could be financed with the program. First, we use triple difference estimators exploiting the fact that the reform should affect most the borrowing behavior of eligible individuals living in high-price areas, and estimate that the elasticity of the probability getting a loan to the interest rate lies between -2.8 and -1.3. Second, w
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