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the quality of their portfolio, but also contracting their supply of mortgage credit. We reach this conclusion by …-country evidence. In turn, our analysis narrows down to one particular policy in the mortgage market, and dissects its effects by …
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We study the feedback from the risk of outstanding mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on the level and volatility of …
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We document that banks reduce supply of jumbo mortgage loans when policy uncertainty increases in their headquarter …
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We show that banks reduce the supply of jumbo mortgage loans when policy uncertainty increases, as measured by the …
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relying on the use of micro-level data on US mortgage loan applications, which allows me to identify liquidity risk as an … important determinant of the contraction of credit in the mortgage market, but as separate from the precipitous fall in credit …
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Using credit register data for loans to Italian firms we test for the presence of asymmetric information in the securitization market by looking at the correlation between the securitization (risk-transfer) and the default (accident) probability. We can disentangle the adverse selection from the...
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We identify the causal effect of house prices on mortgage demand and supply in Switzerland by exploiting exogenous … mortgage amounts. The full partial correlation of 0.78% suggests also positive feedback from mortgage volumes to house prices …. While we find higher house prices to increase mortgage demand, banks respond if anything with fewer offers and higher rates …
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The paper investigates whether impaired asset segregation tools, otherwise known as bad banks, and recapitalisation lead to a recovery in the originating banks' lending and a reduction in non-performing loans (NPLs). Results are based on a novel data set covering 135 banks from 15 European...
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We introduce a structural dynamic network model of the formation of lending relationships in the unsecured interbank market. Banks are subject to random liquidity shocks and can form links with potential trading partners to bilaterally Nash bargain about loan conditions. To reduce credit risk...
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High sovereign debt in advanced economies has recently revived the debate about the role of coordination problems and self-fulfilling beliefs as drivers of sovereign default risk. I show how default risk can be decomposed in a solvency-risk component and a coordination-risk component. I then...
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