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Determinants of Structured Finance Issuance - A Cross-Country Comparison

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  • Sebastian A. Schuetz

    (Lüneburg-Wolfsburg chamber of industry and commerce, Germany)

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Especially structured finance instruments were blamed as main reason for the financial crisis 2007, but the understanding for the motivation to originate securitization products is less discovered. Therefor this paper tries to identify main balance sheet characteristics of structured finance originators. We investigate balance sheet figures for the 250 largest banks in each Europe, Germany and USA between 1994-2009. We identified different main reasons for the banks in each region to securitize that are in line with observable behavior of market participants. US banks use securitization mainly as credit risk transfer instrument and to increase performance, while European originators focus on regulatory capital arbitrage and performance improvement. For German banks securitization seems to be an appropriate funding tool. The proposed regulatory securitization changes like in Basel III are evaluated in this context, but will hit the banks not as hard as expected.

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  • Sebastian A. Schuetz, 2011. "Determinants of Structured Finance Issuance - A Cross-Country Comparison," Working Paper Series in Economics 197, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:lue:wpaper:197
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    Keywords

    regulatory arbitrage; securitization; subprime crisis; ABS; credit risk transfer; Basel III; liquidity;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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