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We show that the regulation of bank lending practices is necessary for the optimal provision of private liquidity. In … system nor narrow banking can provide the socially efficient amount of liquidity. If the bankers provided such an amount …
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This paper examines changes in the redefault rate of mortgages that were selected for modification during 2008-2011, compared with that of similarly situated self-cured mortgages. We find a large decline in the redefault rate of both modified and self-cured mortgages over this period, but the...
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Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are rarely below the purchase contract price: Some 30% of appraisals in our sample are exactly at the home price (with less than 10% of them below it). We lay out a basic theoretical...
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liquidity regulations. Basel III and the capital stress tests introduced new requirements and new definitions while retaining … (HQLAs) are the binding constraints at large U.S. banks, especially for banks that are active in capital markets activities …. Banks have been holding more CET1 and a larger share of Level 1 HQLAs since the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. We also …
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the interaction between entrepreneurs' moral hazard and liquidity provision by banks as analyzed by Holmstrom and Tirole … (1998). They impose capital requirements on banks and calibrate the regulation using the Basel II risk-weight formula …
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This paper estimates the value of the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) subsidy. Using data from the merger boom of 1991-2004, the authors find that banking organizations were willing to pay an added premium for mergers that would put them over the asset sizes that are commonly viewed as the thresholds for...
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We study the evolution of US mortgage credit supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the mortgage market experienced a historic boom in 2020, we show there was also a large and sustained increase in intermediation markups that limited the pass-through of low rates to borrowers. Markups...
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The distribution of combined loan-to-value ratios (CLTVs) for purchase mortgages has been remarkably stable in the U.S. over the last 25 years. But the source of high-CLTV loans changed during the housing boom of the 2000s, with private securitization replacing FHA and VA loans directly...
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projections as an exogenous shock to banks and analyze how this shock is transmitted to consumer credit markets. First, we … document that banks in the 90th percentile of the capital gap reduce their new supply of risky credit by 13 percent compared … these banks find alternative ways to remain competitive and attract customers by lowering interest rates and offering more …
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This paper estimates the value of the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) subsidy. Using data from the merger boom of 1991-2004, the authors find that banking organizations were willing to pay an added premium for mergers that would put them over the asset sizes that are commonly viewed as the thresholds for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200090