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We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … countries that do not allow for mortgage securitization. Our results are based on quarterly data from a panel of 16 …
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This paper examines how the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest investors in subprime private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS), influenced the risk characteristics and prices of the deals in which they participated. To identify the causal effect...
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-transfer and default probabilities to gauge the severity of informational asymmetries in the loan securitization market. First, the …
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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 explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … countries that do not allow for mortgage securitization. Our results are based on quarterly data from a panel of 16 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806732
This study aims to explain causal relationships between the two dramatic cycles observed in the U.S. during the recent financial crisis - the mortgage credit cycle and the home price cycle. In the viewpoint of mortgage lending, the main demand-side driver for the observed credit concentration...
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We empirically investigate the benefits of multiple ratings not only at issuance of debt instruments but also during the subsequent monitoring phase. Using a record of monthly credit rating migration data on all U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities rated by Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and...
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This study presents an intriguing contrast of the ex ante and ex post relations between mortgage securitization and …
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We study the optimal loan securitization policy of a commercial bank which is mainly engaged in lending activities. For … this we propose a stylized dynamic model which contains the main features affecting the securitization decision. In line … securitization. The fixed transaction costs lead to a formulation of the optimization problem in an impulse control framework. We …
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This study presents an intriguing contrast of the ex ante and ex post relations between mortgage securitization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115065