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Strategic complementarity, fragility, and regulation

Vives, Xavier - 2011 - Rev. May 2011

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is a critical determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...

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Using bankruptcy to reduce foreclosures : does strip-down of mortgages affect the supply of mortgage credit?

Li, Wenli; Ishani, Tewari; White, Michelle J. - 2014 - Current version: February 2014

We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down" as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is provided...

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Insurers monitor shocks to collateral : micro evidence from mortgage-backed securities

Fetzer, Thiemo; Guin, Benjamin; Netto, Felipe; Saidi, Farzad - 2024

This paper uncovers if and how insurance companies react to shocks to collateral in their portfolio of securitized assets. We address this question in the context of commercial real estate cash flow shocks, which are informationally opaque to holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities...

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Disagreement and optimal security design

Ortner, Juan M.; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2018

We study optimal security design when the issuer and market participants agree to disagree about the characteristics of the asset to be securitized. We show that pooling assets can be optimal because it mitigates the effects of disagreement between issuer and investors, whereas tranching a...

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Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking, securitization, and their role for US business cycle fluctuations

Peersman, Gert; Wagner, Wolf - 2014

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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Portfolio sales and signaling

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Worrall, Timothy - 2017

A common practice of banks has been to pool assets of different qualities and then sell a fraction of the newly created portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level...

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Sustainability of product market collusion under credit market imperfections

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Yang, Lei - 2016

We study the implications of credit constraints for the sustainability of product market collusion in a bank-financed oligopoly in which firms face an imperfect credit market. We consider two situations, without and with credit rationing, i.e., with a binding credit limit. When there is credit...

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Behavioural credit cycles

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Iannotta, Gabriele - 2022

We explore the intertwined dynamics of asset prices and the macroeconomy in a Behavioural model of Credit Cycles (BCC) characterized by a credit friction à la Kiyotaki and Moore and heterogeneous expectations cum heuristic switching à la Brock and Hommes. This behavioural approach allows to...

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Securitization of mortgage debt, asset prices and international risk sharing

Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - 2009

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … countries that do not allow for mortgage securitization. Our results are based on quarterly data from a panel of 16 …

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Pooling, tranching and credit expansion

Bougheas, Spiros P. - 2012

Traditionally banks have used securitization for expanding credit and thus their profitability. It has been well …-rated tranche. This paper builds a simple model of securitization that accounts for the above retention strategies. Banks in the … predicted retention strategies match well those found in empirical studies. -- securitization ; tranching ; credit expansion …

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