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This research explores the effects of securitization on banks equity risk exposure. A widespread opinion before the … crisis of 2007–2008 was that securitization enhances financial stability. We provide empirical evidence of the impact of … securitization on the market's perception of the originating banks’ risk exposure before and after the crisis, in terms of systematic …
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The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent … research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests that securitization itself may not have been a problem, but rather the …
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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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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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This research examines the effects of securitization on the bank's risk exposure both in terms of individual expected … shortfall and marginal expected shortfall as a measure of systemic risk. The relationship between securitization activity and … securitization is relatively insignificant compared to the risk retained by the originating bank. We show that this risk retention is …
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The roles of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become increasingly controversial in the modern world of residential mortgage finance. We describe the special features of these two companies and their roles in the mortgage markets. We then discuss the controversies that surround them and offer...
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This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary conforming mortgage market: 1) the expansion of Federal Home Loan Bank mortgage purchase programs, and 2) the adoption of revised risk-based capital requirements for large U.S. banks (Basel II).(...)
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The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent … research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests that securitization itself may not have been a problem, but rather the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960292
The 2008 global financial crisis highlights the importance of securitization and crash risk. Yet there is a dearth of … papers exploring the link between securitization and crash risk. We analyze 7,096 securitization deals made by large European … listed banks between 2000 and 2017. Our paper provides evidence that bank risk declines in the year of the securitization and …
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