Canadian government wields macro-prudential power, IMF paper says

Softening in mortgage market since 2010 attributable to government policy

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The moderation in Canadian house prices and mortgage credit since 2010 can be attributed at least in part to macro-prudential policy measures implemented by the government, according to a paper by two IMF economists.

In the paper, With great power comes great responsibility: macro-prudential tools at work in Canada, Ivo Krznar and James Morsink write that the combination of the requirement that most lenders have insurance for high loan-to-value (LTV) mortgage loans, and the central role of the

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