This paper assesses the impact of asset backed ratings on the Merrill Lynch US Asset Backed Securities and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Index (CABs index) over a period January 1998 through to February 2010. In particular, we examine the relationship between ratings changes of the asset...

This paper studies sovereign debt crises during the period 1993-2006 through the prism of the primary sovereign bond market. It finds that one cannot reject the hypothesis that investment banks price sovereign default risk well before crises emerge and well before investors do. Investment banks...

The recent sub-prime debacle has brought ‘innovative’ structured credit products such as collateralized debt obligations under severe criticism. The complexity of some structured finance securities and difficulties in understanding their risks has been a common theme. This paper argues that...

This paper addresses the questions whether European mutual fund managers rely on sell-side analyst information and whether this behavior impacts fund performance. Results show that mutual funds significantly increase (decrease) their holdings in stocks when any of the consensus forecast measures...

In this article, the market risk associated with the financial markets of New York and Colombia is evaluated in three periods belonging to the 2019-2020-time window, characterized by shocking economic and social conditions such as the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and the global...

In this article, the market risk associated with the financial markets of New York and Colombia is evaluated in three periods belonging to the 2019-2020-time window, characterized by shocking economic and social conditions such as the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and the global...

We study optimal securitization in the presence of an initial moral hazard. A financial intermediary creates and then sells to outside investors defaultable assets, whose default risk is determined by the unobservable costly effort exerted by the intermediary. We calculate the optimal contract...

Bernd Rudolph, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, zeigt in seinem Kommentar, welche Vor- und Nachteile mit einer Nutzung der ABS-Märkte verbunden sind, wie sie gestaltet und wie sie reguliert sein müssen, damit die genannten Defizite und möglichen...

Bernd Rudolph, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin, zeigt in seinem Kommentar, welche Vor- und Nachteile mit einer Nutzung der ABS-Märkte verbunden sind, wie sie gestaltet und wie sie reguliert sein müssen, damit die genannten Defizite und möglichen...

This article will argue that the shadow banking system has been at the heart of the Great Crisis since its first manifestations in the summer of 2007. This system has been purposefully misunderstood, as it is essentially a complex machine of too-big-to-fail banks designed to make large private...