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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 …
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We use UK transaction-level data during the Covid-19 pandemic to study whether mortgage payment holidays (PH) can act … as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage … mortgage PH led to higher saving rates for more financially-stable households …
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Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists, this adjustment can slow GDP growth by weighing on consumption. Using a sample of advanced and emerging market economies, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship...
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Has monetary policy in advanced economies been less effective since the global financial crisis because of deteriorating household balance sheets? This paper examines the question using household data from the United States. It compares the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary...
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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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