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The effect of interest rates on the demand for mortgage credit in South Africa
This paper uses novel and detailed mortgage origination data to estimate the interest rate elasticity of mortgage demand along the intensive margin in South Africa. I find that homebuyers increase the size of the mortgage they take out by 2.8 percent in response to a 1 percentage point decrease in t...
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School of Economics
2025
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