• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Agency conflicts in residential mortgage securitization: What does the empirical literature tell us?
  • Contributor: Frame, W. Scott [Author]
  • imprint: Atlanta, GA: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2017
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: G28 ; banks ; mortgages ; financial crisis ; G23 ; securitization ; G01 ; G21
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  • Description: The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent financial crisis, despite the presence of various legal and economic constructs to mitigate them. A review of recent empirical research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests that securitization itself may not have been a problem, but rather the origination and distribution of observably riskier loans. Low-documentation mortgages, for which asymmetric information problems are acute, performed especially poorly during the crisis. Securitized low-documentation mortgages performed better when included in deals where security issuers were affiliated with lenders or had significant reputational capital at stake and investors priced the risk of low-documentation loans via larger required equity tranches and/or higher security yields.
  • Access State: Open Access