Testimony on the State of the Securitization Markets

18 Pages Posted: 24 May 2011

Date Written: May 17, 2011

Abstract

In this May 18, 2011 testimony before the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, I suggest certain regulatory responses to improve securitization. Certain of securitization’s problems are typical of problems we must face in any innovative financial market: that increasing complexity, coupled with human complacency (among other factors), will make failures virtually inevitable. Regulation must respond to this reality by putting into place, before these failures occur, responses that supplement regulatory restrictions intended to prevent failures.

Suggested Citation

Schwarcz, Steven L., Testimony on the State of the Securitization Markets (May 17, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1844407 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1844407

Steven L. Schwarcz (Contact Author)

Duke University School of Law ( email )

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