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A central result in the theory of adverse selection in asset markets is that informed sellers can signal quality by delaying trade. This paper uses the residential mortgage market as a laboratory to test this mechanism. Using detailed, loan-level data on privately securitized mortgages, we find...
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A central result in the theory of adverse selection in asset markets is that informed sellers can signal quality by delaying trade. This paper uses the residential mortgage market as a laboratory to test this mechanism. Using detailed, loan-level data on privately securitized mortgages, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776818
-transfer and default probabilities to gauge the severity of informational asymmetries in the loan securitization market. First, the …
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This study examines the relationship between securitization and loan performance using proprietary loan-level data from … retained on the bank's balance sheet, suggesting no adverse selection or moral hazard within the Chinese securitization market … alters banks' business model and eliminates other options of credit risk transfer except for securitization, we show worse …
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We examine screening incentives, welfare and the case for mandatory skin-in-the-game. Ex ante banks can screen, using interim private information to choose retentions and structuring. Ex post speculators trade with rational hedging investors. Absent regulation, there is a separating equilibrium...
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This study examines the relationship between securitization and loan performance using proprietary loan-level data from … retained on the bank's balance sheet, suggesting no adverse selection or moral hazard within the Chinese securitization market … alters banks' business model and eliminates other options of credit risk transfer except for securitization, we show worse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363823
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337605
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942499
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397686
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