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divert attention from the underlying breakdown of incentives. Incentive conflicts explain how securitization went wrong, why … supervision in every country in the world. The paper concludes by identifying reforms that would improve incentives by increasing … transparency and accountability in government and industry alike. "--World Bank web site …
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In 2007 the world faced one of the biggest financial crises ever. It was the third important financial crisis in the … theoretical models and a survey of institutions involved in securitization. With the conclusions of this analysis we evaluate the …
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This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of assetbacked securities (ABS) based on individual asset holding data of German banks. I find that those banks operating with tight regulatory constraints pick the securities with the highest yield and lowest collateral...
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This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of asset-backed securities (ABS) based on individual asset holding data of German banks. I find that banks operating with tight regulatory constraints exploit the low risk-sensitivity of rating-contingent capital requirements...
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regulatory reform. The analysis ascribes the crisis not only to problems in subprime mortgage lending and securitization, but … and securitization, focusing on problems of security design and governance, and lack of external discipline from rating …. Among systemic flaws, the paper discusses governance problems in mortgage origination and securitization as well as banking …
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adjustment ; IRB approach ; securitization …
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We evaluate lenders' incentives to mitigate credit default risk through pricing or securitisation. Exploiting exogenous variation in credit default risk created by differences in foreclosure law along US state borders, we find that lenders in the mortgage market respond to the law in...
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We evaluate if lenders price or securitise mortgages to mitigate credit risk. Exploiting exogenous variation in regional credit risk created by differences in foreclosure law along US state borders, we find that financial institutions respond to the law in heterogeneous ways. In the agency...
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This paper analyzes the risk properties of typical asset-backed securities (ABS), like CDOs or MBS, relying on a model with both macroeconomic and idiosyncratic components. The examined properties include expected loss, loss given default, and macro factor dependencies. Using a two-dimensional...
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