Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208270 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2236
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
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.
Subjects: 
Mortgage-backed securities
issuer reputation
rating shopping
JEL: 
G21
G24
G28
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-3498-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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