Securitization and Bank Intermediation Function

47 Pages Posted: 22 Aug 2010 Last revised: 7 Dec 2011

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Maxim Zagonov

Toulouse Business School, Université de Toulouse

Date Written: August 21, 2010

Abstract

The move from the originate-to-hold to originate-to-distribute model of lending profoundly transformed the functioning of credit markets and weakened the natural asset transformation function performed by …financial intermediaries for centuries. This shift also compromised the role of banks in channeling monetary policy initiatives, and undermined the importance of traditional asset-liability practices of interest rate risk management. The question is, therefore, whether securitization is conducive to the optimal hedging of bank interest rate risk, with this being of particular relevance in the current economic and monetary conditions. The empirical results reported in this work suggest that banks resorting to securitization do not, on average, achieve an unambiguous reduction in their exposure to the term structure fluctuations. Against this background, banks with very high involvement in the originate-to-distribute market enjoy lower interest rate risk. This however by no means implies superior risk management practices in these institutions but is merely a result of disintermediation.

Keywords: Banks, Interest Rate Risk, Securitization

JEL Classification: G21, G28, E52, C23

Suggested Citation

Zagonov, Maxim, Securitization and Bank Intermediation Function (August 21, 2010). 23rd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2010 Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1663061 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1663061

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