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The Market Structure of Securitisation and the US Housing Bubble

Wachter, Susan M. - 2015

Housing finance, and, specifically, the subprime private label securitisation market in the US, was at the epicentre of the global financial crisis. Excessive debt expansion in the run-up to the crisis resulted in credit risk, under-identified and mispriced ex ante, and in systemic risk. This...

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Reforming Financial Systems after the Crisis : A Comparison of EU and USA

Masera, Rainer Stefano - 2011

Since July 2007, the developed countries faced the most serious and disruptive crisis after the 1929 Great Depression. As the crisis unfolded, policy authorities stepped in to support troubled financial institutions with large bailouts. This prevented a meltdown of the system, but at the cost of...

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Trust : a concept too many

Guinnane, Timothy - 2005

Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this … research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more … confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the extent that scholars have a clear idea of what trust actually means, the …

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Consolidation and Crisis in the US Banking Sector 1980-2022

Mouré, Christopher - 2024

Much of the economic analysis of banking crises focuses on the interplay between concentration and stability. A common theory is that concentration is associated with greater stability, whereas competition is associated with instability. In this view, there is a trade-off between, on the one...

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Comovements and Asymmetric Tail Dependence in State Housing Prices in the US : A Nonparametric Approach

Huang, Haitao - 2019

We re-examine the methods used in estimating comovements among U.S. regional home prices and find that there are insufficient moments to ensure a normal limit necessary for employing the quasi-maximum likelihood estimator. Hence, we propose applying the self- weighted quasi-maximum exponential...

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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study

Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

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Shadow Insurance? Money Market Fund Investors and Bank Sponsorship

Jacewitz, Stefan - 2020

In this paper, we argue that bank-sponsored prime institutional money market funds (PI-MMFs) are different from non-bank-sponsored PI-MMFs. This difference can arise because the sponsoring bank holding companies (BHCs) can extend shadow insurance to ailing affiliated MMFs. We hypothesize that...

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Bank Supervision in the U.S. and the G-10 : Implications for Basel II

Nolle, Daniel E. - 2012

The author compares the U.S. with other G-10 countries regarding key aspects of permissible banking activities. One conclusion is that banks in the U.S. face greater restrictions, and possibly more intensive supervisory oversight, than do banks in most other G-10 countries. Second, the majority...

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Are Foreign Banks Out-Competing U.S. Banks in the U.S. Market?

Nolle, Daniel E. - 2012

The market share of foreign-owned banks (subsidiaries, branches, and agencies) in the United States grew dramatically during the 1980s and early 1990s, amid fears that foreign banks were out-competing U.S.-owned banks in their home market. However, more recent data show that growth of the market...

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The Reduction of Systemic Risk in the United States Financial System

Scott, Hal S. - 2010

The central problem for financial regulation is reducing systemic risk. Systemic risk is the risk that the failure of one significant institution can cause or significantly contribute to the failure of other significant institutions. This paper addresses the five most important policies for...

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