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This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of assetbacked securities (ABS) based on …
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yield. Studying securitization exposures on the balance sheets of German banks, I show evidence consistent with this …
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This research explores the effects of securitization on the market's perception of banks' risk exposure between 2002 … systematic betas until 2007. We find no evidence of increasing idiosyncratic risk with securitization. We identify significant …
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The financial crisis that started in 2007 exposed a number of flaws in the financial system. Many of these flaws were associated with financial instruments that were issued by the shadow banking system, especially securitized assets. The volume and complexity of securitized assets grew rapidly...
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the cost of increasing systemic risk. Later, a follow-up study showed that a particular strategy of securitization with … tranches can help avoid this trade-off. We extend the theoretical work on securitization by considering all possible strategies … for securitization with two tranches, by finding their corresponding optimal diversification solutions, and by discussing …
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performance. Nevertheless, the effect of residential mortgage loans securitization on bank risk appeared to be negative after the … crisis, indicating that the securitization of this type of credit can reduce the bank risk in the detriment of a lower profit …
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This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks' financial strength ratings (bank rating) and their risk-return profiles. It is expected that banks with high ratings tend to earn high expected returns for the risks they assume and thereby have a low probability of...
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This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a banking sector and a bank regulator who lacks information about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set rating independent capital requirements....
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Although Basel II fortified the first two pillars with market transparency enhancing Pillar III disclosures and encouraged the usage of major Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) such as Moody’s, Standard and Poor's, and Fitch as quasi governmental authorities to overcome asymmetric informational...
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