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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Holes in the dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 183 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 29 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Abstract Text | We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2010. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior to the large net capital inflows into the US from China and other emerging economies. Our re- sults suggest a long shadow of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding shock for US wide banks: different from local banks, these banks held a geographically diversified portfolio of mort- gages which allowed them to tap the global demand for safe assets by issuing private-label safe assets backed by the country-wide US housing market. This, in turn, allowed them to expand mortgage lending and lower interest rates, driving up housing prices. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp183.pdf |
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| Keywords | House prices, savings glut, global imbalances, credit constraints, state banking deregulation |