The Mortgage Credit Directive (Directive 2014/17/EU) aims to create an efficient and competitive internal market for consumers, creditors and credit intermediaries. It aims to provide a high level of consumer protection; and promote financial stability by ensuring that mortgage credit markets op...
We study the identification of policy shocks in Bayesian proxy VARs for the case that the instrument consists of sparse qualitative observations indicating the signs of certain shocks. We propose two identification schemes, i.e. linear discriminant analysis and a non-parametric sign concordance ...
Why do residential mortgages carry a fixed or an adjustable interest rate? To answer this question we study unique data from 103 banks belonging to 73 different banking groups across twelve countries in the euro area. To explain the large cross-country and time variation observed, we distinguish...
