Securitization without risk transfer
By: Viral V. Acharya, Philipp Schnabl, Gustavo Suarez.
Contributors: Schnabl, Philip.; Suárez, Gustavo.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15730; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15730.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We analyze asset-backed commercial paper conduits which played a central role in the early phase of the financial crisis of 2007-09.  We document that commercial banks set up conduits to securitize assets while insuring the newly securitized assets using credit guarantees.  The credit guarantees were structured to reduce bank capital requirements, while providing recourse to bank balance sheets for outside investors.  Consistent with such recourse, we find that banks with more exposure to conduits had lower stock returns at the start of the financial crisis; that during the first year of the crisis, asset-backed commercial paper spreads increased and issuance fell, especially for conduits with weaker credit guarantees and riskier banks; and that losses from conduits mostly remained with banks rather than outside investors.  These results suggest that banks used this form of securitization to concentrate, rather than disperse, financial risks in the banking sector while reducing their capital requirements"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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