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. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital … competition at the industry level lead to higher realized systemic risk. The results suggest that the use of securitization …
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This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset of the crisis nor of its ferocity. Instead it shows, first, that the use of ill-suited collateral...
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Between 1980 and before the recent crisis, the ratio of financial market debt to liquid assets rose exponentially in the U.S. (and in other financial markets), reflecting in part the greater use of securitized assets to collateralize borrowing. The subsequent crisis has reduced the pool of...
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This paper examines the financial stability implications arising from securitization markets, with one eye on the past … industry developments in the years before the crisis. Emphasis is placed on the various ways in which securitization markets … securitization markets are then discussed, including a treatment of various regulatory initiatives, the operational infrastructure of …
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securitization activity on loans' relative credit quality employing a uniquely detailed dataset from the euro-denominated syndicated … securitization, however, the credit quality of borrowers whose loans are securitized deteriorates by more than those in the control …
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sheets to non-banks via increased securitization activity. As such, higher interest rates have the potential for unintended … sectors. In the past, this increased securitization activity was driven primarily byb private-label securitization. On the … cutting back on their securitization activity but expanding loans to the Federal Home Loan Bank system …
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After a number of warning signs, the U.S. ""subprime mortgage crisis"" became a headline issue in February 2007. Notwithstanding the bankruptcy of numerous mortgage companies, historically high delinquencies and foreclosures, and a significant tightening in subprime lending standards, the impact...
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The purpose of this lecture is to look beyond the complex events that characterize the global financial and economic crisis, identify the basic mechanisms, and infer the policies needed to resolve the current crisis, as well as the policies needed to reduce the probability of similar events in...
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financial sector stability) to the fast rise of securitization and the way it has arguably complicated both the conduct of … innovation, specifically through securitization, has altered the nature of some macro-financial linkages, often with considerable … policy implications. We find that securitization activity in the United States (mature market) and South Africa (emerging …
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developed countries in their efforts to implement asset securitization techniques in their financial markets. Challenges and … recent developments in securitization techniques …
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