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Effects of a Mortgage Interest Rate Subsidy: Evidence from Colombia

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  • Marc Hofstetter
  • Jorge Tovar
  • Miguel Urrutia

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Government intervention in the construction sector as a way to boost the economy hasbeen a constant in Colombia for the past 90 years. This paper explicitly tests the impact of the most recent of such interventions: a subsidy to the mortgage interest rate. Our results show that the subsidy boosted mortgage loans by around 38 percent. However, we also find that real interest rates went up by 1.09 percent, i.e., there has been an incomplete pass through of the subsidy to the consumer. We estimate the pass-through of such intervention to be in the range of 65 percent to 74 percent.

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  • Marc Hofstetter & Jorge Tovar & Miguel Urrutia, 2011. "Effects of a Mortgage Interest Rate Subsidy: Evidence from Colombia," Documentos CEDE 8749, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
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    1. Nicolás Cuervo & Samuel Jaramillo, 2009. "Dos décadas de política de vivienda en Bogotá apostando por el mercado," Documentos CEDE 6651, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
    2. Arturo José Galindo & Marc Hofstetter, 2008. "Mortgage Interest Rates, Country Risk and Maturity Matching in Colombia," Documentos CEDE 4544, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
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    Keywords

    Mortgage loans; mortgage interest rate subsidy; history of mortgage loans in Colombia.;
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    JEL classification:

    • N96 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand
    • R28 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Government Policy

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