{"id":6636,"date":"2013-02-05T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2013-02-05T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T20:00:52","slug":"did-securitization-lead-to-riskier-corporate-lending-liberty-street-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/05\/did-securitization-lead-to-riskier-corporate-lending-liberty-street-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Securitization Lead to Riskier Corporate Lending? &#8211; Liberty Street Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jo\u00e3o Santos writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\">\n<p>There\u2019s ample evidence that securitization led mortgage lenders to take more risk, thereby contributing to a large increase in mortgage delinquencies during the financial crisis. In this post, I discuss evidence from a recent research study I undertook with Vitaly Bord suggesting that securitization also led to riskier corporate lending. We show that during the boom years of securitization, corporate loans that banks securitized at loan origination underperformed similar, unsecuritized loans originated by the same banks. Additionally, we report evidence suggesting that the performance gap reflects looser underwriting standards applied by banks to loans they securitize.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org\/2013\/02\/did-securitization-lead-to-riskier-corporate-lending.html'>Did Securitization Lead to Riskier Corporate Lending? &#8211; Liberty Street Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo\u00e3o Santos writes: There\u2019s ample evidence that securitization led mortgage lenders to take more risk, thereby contributing to a large increase in mortgage delinquencies during the financial crisis. In this post, I discuss evidence from a recent research study I undertook with Vitaly Bord suggesting that securitization also led to riskier corporate lending. We show &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/05\/did-securitization-lead-to-riskier-corporate-lending-liberty-street-economics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did Securitization Lead to Riskier Corporate Lending? &#8211; Liberty Street Economics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[355,2376,3065],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fed-banks-interest-rates","tag-bank-lending","tag-mortgage-lending","tag-securitization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did Securitization Lead to Riskier Corporate Lending? - Liberty Street Economics - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did Securitization Lead to Riskier Corporate Lending? - Liberty Street Economics - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jo\u00e3o Santos writes: There\u2019s ample evidence that securitization led mortgage lenders to take more risk, thereby contributing to a large increase in mortgage delinquencies during the financial crisis. 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