Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization

Posted: 3 Nov 2008

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Vishal Gaur

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Sridhar Seshadri

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Indian School of Business

Marti G. Subrahmanyam

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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Date Written: December 2005

Abstract

This paper studies the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions. Wemodel an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors and an intermediary. Thefirms face unique investment opportunities that are not spanned by the securities traded in the financial market, and thus, cannot be priced uniquely using the no-arbitrage principle. The specific innovation we consider is securitization: the intermediary buys claims from the firms that are fully backed by cash flows from the new projects, pools these claims together, and then issues tranches of secondary securities to the investors. We first derive necessary andsufficient conditions under which pooling provides value enhancement from the new projects that are undertaken, and the prices paid to the firms are acceptable to them compared to the no-investment option or the option of forming alternative pools. We find that there is a unique pool that is sustainable, and which may or may not consist of all projects in the intermediary sconsideration set.

Suggested Citation

Gaur, Vishal and Seshadri, Sridhar and Subrahmanyam, Marti G., Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization (December 2005). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-05-039, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1294179

Vishal Gaur

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ( email )

Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

HOME PAGE: http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Gaur/

Sridhar Seshadri

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ( email )

1206 South Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
United States

Indian School of Business ( email )

Hyderabad, Gachibowli 500 019
India

Marti G. Subrahmanyam

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business ( email )

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Suite 9-160
New York, NY NY 10012
United States

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