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economic effects of mortgage securitization. We also assemble descriptive statistics about market size, growth, security … the MBS market and mortgage securitization. …
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covered bond market bears a number of similarities to U.S. agency securitization. In this paper we describe the key features …
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We document the emergence of a disconnect between mortgage and Treasury interest rates in the summer of 2003. Following the end of the Federal Reserve's expansionary cycle in June 2003, mortgage rates failed to rise according to their historical relationship with Treasury yields, leading to...
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This paper studies the connection between risk taking and executive compensation in financial institutions. A theoretical model of shareholders, debtholders, depositors, and an executive suggests that 1) in principle, excessive risk taking (in the form of risk shifting) may be addressed by...
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Are companies with traded credit default swap (CDS) positions on their debt more likely to default? Using a proportional hazard model of bankruptcy and Merton's contingent claims approach, we estimate the probability of default for US nonfinancial firms. Our analysis does not generally find a...
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We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...
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management, monetary policy, and systemic risk. In this paper, we show that securitization is a key driver of FRM supply. Our … market. Our interpretation is that securitization is particularly important for FRMs because of the prepayment and interest …. -- mortgage finance ; securitization ; regression discontinuity design ; difference-in-differences …
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We explore the capital structure and governance of a mortgage-insuring securitization utility operating with government … mutualization could address incentive misalignments arising out of securitization and government insurance, as well as how the …
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We show that insurance companies have almost nonupled their investments in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) in the post-crisis period, reaching total holdings of $125 billion in 2019. The growth in CLOs' investments has far outpaced that of loans and corporate bonds, and was characterized...
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We study the Green and Lin (2003) model of financial intermediation with two new features: traders may face a cost of contacting the intermediary, and consumption needs may be correlated across traders. We show that each feature is capable of generating an equilibrium in which some (but not all)...
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