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Cover Departmental Papers
Housing Market Stability and Affordability in Asia-Pacific
Mr. Pragyan Deb, Mr. Harald Finger, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Yosuke Kido, Siddharth Kothari, Mr. Evan Papageorgiou, Henry Hoyle, and Anne Oeking
The paper intends to highlight challenges in Asian housing markets linked to fast price rises especially in the advanced economies since COVID, and more broadly including many EMs in the period leading up to COVID. It aims to draw policy lessons on how to manage stability aspects through macroprudential and other policies and how to support affordability through structural policies and targeted government support.
Keywords:
Asia Financial stability Fiscal policy Household debt Housing affordability Housing cycles Housing market Housing price at risk Macroprudential policy Monetary policy; price misalignment; housing--prices--Pacific area; Housing Price-at-Risk; housing markets in the Asia-Pacific region; housing market stability; Housing prices; Housing; Macroprudential policy instruments; Macroprudential policy; Mortgages; Asia and Pacific; Australia and New Zealand
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Affordable Rental Housing: Making It Part of Europe’s Recovery
Khalid ElFayoumi, Ms. Izabela Karpowicz, Ms. Jenny Lee, Ms. Marina Marinkov, Ms. Aiko Mineshima, Jorge Salas, Andreas Tudyka, and Ms. Andrea Schaechter
Many European economies have faced pressure from rental housing affordability that has widened social and economic divergence. While significant country and regional differences exist, this departmental paper finds that in many advanced European economies a large and rising share of low-income renters, the young, and those living in cities is overburdened. In several locations, middle-income groups also increasingly face rental affordability issues.
Keywords:
Europe, Rental housing, Rental market policies, Housing affordability, Social inclusion, Low-income housing, Low-income tenants, Income distribution; rental housing affordability; affordability issue; rental market; rental cost; rental price; Housing; Income; Housing prices; Disposable income; Income inequality; Europe; Global
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Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
Jihad Dagher
Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. This paper examines the political economy of financial policy during ten of the most infamous financial booms and busts since the 18th century, and presents consistent evidence of pro-cyclical regulatory policies by governments. Financial booms, and risk-taking during these episodes, were often amplified by political regulatory stimuli, credit subsidies, and an increasing light-touch approach to financial supervision. The regulatory backlash that ensues from financial crises can only be understood in the context of the deep political ramifications of these crises. Post-crisis regulations do not always survive the following boom. The interplay between politics and financial policy over these cycles deserves further attention. History suggests that politics can be the undoing of macro-prudential regulations.
Keywords:
WP; central bank; financial market; political economy; banking sector; Financial Regulation; Financial Crises; Boom-Bust Cycles; Glass-Steagall Act; financial bubble; ruling party; share price; joint stock; crony capitalism; plain vanilla; stock index; bubble company; joint-stock bank; incumbent governments policy; government sponsorship; Housing; Global financial crisis of 2008-2009; Banking crises; Global; South America