The Impact of Risk Retention Regulation on the Underwriting of Securitized Mortgages

Craig Furfine ()
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Craig Furfine: Kellogg School of Management

Journal of Financial Services Research, 2020, vol. 58, issue 2, No 1, 114 pages

Abstract: Abstract The Dodd-Frank Act requires securitization sponsors to retain not less than a 5% share of the aggregate credit risk of the assets they securitize. This paper examines how the implementation of risk-retention requirements affected the market for securitized mortgage loans. Using a difference-in-difference empirical framework, I find that risk retention implementation is associated with mortgages being issued with markedly higher interest rates, yet notably lower loan-to-value ratios and higher income to debt-service ratios. In addition, after controlling for observable loan characteristics, loans subject to risk retention requirements appear to be less likely to become troubled. These findings suggest that the risk retention rules have made securitized loans safer in both observable and unobservable dimensions, yet are more expensive to borrowers. Further evidence suggests that the risk-retention rules are binding, with the amount of risk being retained following implementation roughly three times that of before, while lenders also seemed to accelerate the securitization of originated loans during the months immediately before the rules took effect.

Keywords: Dodd-Frank; Securitization; Risk retention; Mortgages; CMBS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G21 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10693-019-00308-6

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