Match the dominant feature of a country's housing finance system with its most likely effect on how housing investment responds to a central bank interest rate increase.
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A central bank is raising its policy interest rate. Consider the housing finance systems of two different countries. In Country X, the vast majority of home loans are 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. In Country Y, most home loans are variable-rate mortgages, with interest rates that reset annually based on the central bank's policy rate. In which country would you expect housing investment to decline more significantly and rapidly in response to the central bank's action, and why?
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