Do reputable issuers provide better-quality securitizations?

Solomon Deku, Alper Kara and David Marques-Ibanez

No 2236, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: We examine the link between issuer reputation and mortgage-backed security (MBS) performance using a sample of 4,247 European MBS issued between 1999 and 2007. We measure performance with credit rating downgrades and delinquencies and track their changes over the long term. We find that, overall, MBS sold by reputable issuers are collateralised by higher quality asset pools which have lower delinquency rates and are less likely to be downgraded. However, as credit standards declined during the boom period of 2005-2007, asset pools securitized by reputable issuers were of worse quality compared to those securitized by less reputable issuers. Therefore, reputation as a self-disciplining mechanism failed to incentivise the production of high quality securities during the credit boom. JEL Classification: G21, G24, G28

Keywords: issuer reputation; mortgage-backed securities; rating shopping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02
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