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Nicht nur seit den jüngsten Flutereignissen ist das Thema "Naturkatastrophen" bekanntlich in aller Munde. Auch jüngere Mitmenschen haben inzwischen schon relativ häufig sogenannte "Jahrhundert-Fluten" erlebt. Ob es sich dabei wirklich um Auswirkungen eines weltweiten Klimawandels handelt,...
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As a result of the 2008 financial crisis, the world credit markets stalled significantly and raised the doubts of market participants and policymakers about the proper and fair valuation of financial derivatives and structured products such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). The aim of...
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Die weltweite Finanzmarktkrise beruht zu einem wesentlichen Teil auf dem Handel mit Verbriefungen, deren Risiken aufgrund manipulierter Ratings erheblich unterschätzt wurden. Die Ursachen der Krise sind demnach weitgehend unstrittig; das Ausmaß der Krise lässt sich aber gegenwärtig kaum...
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securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …
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We investigate the effect of securitization activity on banks’ lending standards using evidence from pricing behavior … aggressive on their loan pricing practices. This suggests that securitization activity lead to laxer credit standards …. Macroeconomic factors also play a large role explaining the impact of securitization activity on bank lending standards: banks more …
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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 expansionary cycle in June 2003, mortgage rates failed to rise according to their historical relationship with Treasury yields, leading to...
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Der ökonomische Mainstream steht seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise 2007/08 vermehrt unter Kritik, hatten doch nur wenige Fachwissenschaftler die Krise vorhergesehen. In der entstandenen Debatte über Ausrichtung und Methoden in der Volkswirtschaftslehre wird auch eine Rückbesinnung auf...
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Structured finance instruments represent a form of securitization technology which can be defined by the … securitization, in order to identify the economic forces underlying the creation of SF instruments. A question addressed is under … what circumstances one would expect to observe pooling alone (as with traditional securitization) versus pooling and …
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We study the possibility for international diversification of catastrophe risk by the insurance sector. Adopting the argument that large insurance losses may be a `globalizing factor' for the industry, we study the dependence of geographically distant insurance markets via equity returns. In...
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