Effects of a mortgage interest rate subsidy: evidence from Colombia

Government intervention in the construction sector as a way to boost the economy has been 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...

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Autores:

Hofstetter Gascón, Marc
Tovar Mora, Jorge Andrés
Urrutia Montoya, Miguel

Tipo de recurso:

Work document

Fecha de publicación:

2011

Institución:

Universidad de los Andes

Repositorio:

Séneca: repositorio Uniandes

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8252

Acceso en línea:

http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8252

Palabra clave:

Mortgage loans
Mortgage interest rate subsid
History of mortgage loans in Colombia
Hipotecas - Investigaciones - Colombia
Hipotecas - Historia - Colombia
Subsidios para vivienda - Investigaciones - Colombia
N96, R21, R28

Rights

openAccess

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/