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. In this paper we raise the question whether credit asset securitization affects the cyclicality (or commonality) of bank … framework for the risk transfer through securitization that builds on a macro risk factor and an idiosyncratic risk factor … the correlation properties both within and across risk classes. We then determine the effect of securitization on the …
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Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … using a model of bank risk-taking and securitization. …
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their securitization decision. We also assess the case for requiring financial institutions to defer bonus pay so as to make … interaction of financial institutions' internal agency problems with the external agency problem that arises from securitization. …
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England’s liquidity management, regulatory failure of the FSA, an inadequate deposit insurance arrangement and deficient …
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Securitization of LDC debt would significantly aid the international debt problem by increasing liquidity and expanding … the range of investors. Securitization is problematic, however, in large part due to sovereign risks involved. At present …
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This paper examines the role of credit rating agencies in the subprime crisis that triggered the 2007-08 financial turmoil. The focus of the paper is on two aspects of ratings that contributed to the boom and bust of the market for asset-backed securities: rating inflation and coarse information...
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We present a model in which issuers of asset backed securities choose to release coarse information to enhance the liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree of transparency is inefficiently low if the social...
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We examine screening incentives, welfare and the case for mandatory skin-in-the-game. Ex ante banks can screen, using interim private information to choose retentions and structuring. Ex post speculators trade with rational hedging investors. Absent regulation, there is a separating equilibrium...
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We analyze the effect of loan sales on the intensity of costly screening. Loan sales strengthen screening incentives when screening primarily improves the bank’s ability to identify profitable loans and when banks retain most of those profitable loans. However, loan sales dampen screening...
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Banks have been heavily involved in securitization. We study whether the involvedness of a firm’s main bank into … different types of securitization activity -- asset backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds -- influences credit supply before … and during the 2007-8 financial crisis. Both types of securitization allow the bank to generate liquidity. To the extent …
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