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We examine the system-wide effects of liquidity regulation on banks’ balance sheets. In the general equilibrium model, banks have to hold liquid assets, and choose among illiquid assets varying in the extent to which they are difficult to value before maturity, e.g., structured securities. By...
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for housing, low interest rates, innovations in mortgage lending and securitization, and a breakdown in credit quality …
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We study how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) influenced the behavior of Agency mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) - a set of institutions identified by the Financial Stability Oversight Council as posing systemic risk. We document that Agency mortgage REITs: [i] equity...
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At present, Western European banks are increasingly branching out into asset management as well as the consulting business, which cannot be influenced directly by monetary controls. We have therefore conducted a factor analysis of banks' balance-sheet items, and we have also plotted figures from...
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role of securitization in the subprime market turmoil, describing how securitization atomized the lending process and …, as well as the difficulty of crafting an adequate response to that meltdown, to the effects of securitization …. Securitization led to weakened and inconsistent underwriting standards and allowed many borrowers to obtain loans that, after a reset …
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We conduct an empirical analysis of the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) on MBS yields and mortgage rates. The Federal Reserve's accumulation of MBS and Treasury securities lowered MBS yields and mortgage rates by more than what would have been suggested by changes in market...
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We provide new evidence about the effect of securitization on bank stability and systemic risk in the run-up to and … use a structural model of bank stability to construct a new measure of the net effect of securitization on bank stability …. Analyzing the dynamics of this measure at the individual bank and the banking system levels shows that securitization activities …
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Before the financial crisis securitization was commonly considered an efficient way of replacing illiquid assets with … the USA. The analysis indicates that, driven by the ECB repo operations, the securitization market has almost lost the pre …-crisis motives behind the issuance of ABS. Banks’ attitudes toward securitization as a refinancing tool and a mechanism to extract …
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At present, Western European banks are increasingly branching out into asset management as well as the consulting business, which cannot be influenced directly by monetary controls. We have therefore conducted a factor analysis of banks' balance-sheet items, and we have also plotted figures from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349861
sheets to non-banks via increased securitization activity. As such, higher interest rates have the potential for unintended … sectors. In the past, this increased securitization activity was driven primarily byb private-label securitization. On the … cutting back on their securitization activity but expanding loans to the Federal Home Loan Bank system …
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