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We test if issuers of asset- and mortgage-backed securities receive rating favors from agencies with which they maintain strong business relationships. Controlling for issuer fixed effects and a large set of credit risk determinants, we show that agencies publish better ratings for those issuers...
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We consider modeling errors in the hedging of a portfolio composed from BBB-rated bonds. By doing this, we open a new … value of indexlinked credit derivatives is very limited: hedging portfolios including only T-bond futures can reduce the … hedging. This is consistent with the literature identifying an important non-default component within corporate bond spreads …
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This study deals with the dynamic hedging of single-tranche collateralized debt obligations (STCDOs). As a first step … dynamics of super-senior tranches. Next, we derive the model-based variance-minimizing strategy for the hedging of STCDOs with …-minimizing and the model-free regression-based hedging on the iTraxx Europe data. Results of the in-sample hedging analysis indicate …
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If regulation fails to differentiate between priced and idiosyncratic risk, it incentivizes investors to reach for yield. Studying securitization exposures on the balance sheets of German banks, I show evidence consistent with this prediction. Banks with tight regulatory constraints (low capital...
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We solve the problem of optimal securitization for an issuer facing heterogeneous investors with arbitrary time and risk preferences. We show that the optimal securitization is characterized by multiple nonlinear tranches, and each investor gets a portfolio of these tranches. In particular, when...
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We study optimal securitization of defaultable assets in a continuous time setting. A financial intermediary can create a portfolio of defaultable assets and then sell it to outside investors. The default risk of the assets in the portfolio is determined by the unobservable costly effort exerted...
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This paper reviews the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market, with a particular emphasis on agency residential MBS in the United States. We discuss the institutional environment, security design, MBS risks and asset pricing, and the economic effects of mortgage securitization. We also assemble...
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How much of a loan should a lender dynamically retain and how does retention affect loan performance? We address these questions in a dynamic agency model in which a lender originates loans that it can sell to investors. The lender reduces default risk through screening at origination and...
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