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How does asset encumbrance affect the fragility of intermediaries subject to rollover risk? We offer a model in which a bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt...
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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet activities. For this purpose, I propose a novel measure of...
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We develop a theoretical model of mortgage loss rates that evaluates their main underlying risk factors. Following the … mortgage loss rates. In addition, we show potential applications of the model for different macroprudential instruments: stress …
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This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German … banks. We develop an EL model where LGD estimates are based on current collateral values and PD dynamics are estimated using …-trigger hypothesis of mortgage defaults. In order to analyse the possible credit losses stemming from residential mortgage lending we …
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We investigate how differential exposures by German banks to the US real estate market during the recent financial crisis affect their corporate lending in Germany. Using unique bank-level exposure data, we distinguish between three different types of bank exposures, i.e. direct exposure to the...
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This paper exploits a recent and granular data set for 1,500 German LSIs to conduct a residential mortgage stress …
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firm level? We exploit that, in 2007, the European Central Bank replaced national collateral frameworks by a single list …. This collateral framework shock added loans to non-domestic euro area firms to the pool of eligible assets. Using loan … extended to (previously eligible) domestic borrowers, suggesting only a limited cross-border effect of the collateral framework …
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