Regulation of the asset-backed securities in the United States before and after financial crisis of 2008
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2018
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Taloustiede
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en
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24
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In this literature review, I analyze the history and the current state of financial regulations on asset-backed securities in the United States of America and whether the current regulatory measures are enough to prevent securities from causing a new economic crisis. I show how the deregulatory wave in the late 20th century in the U.S. partly caused the financial crisis of 2008 by creating a significant shadow banking system where securities were severely underregulated. I analyze how Basel Committee’s standards pushed financial institutions to use securities in off-balance sheets by allowing a regulatory arbitrage between different financial institutions, and how those decisions played a key role in the financial crisis of 2008. I analyze how the two most important regulatory measures made after the crisis, i.e. Basel III and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act do solve many important issues that allowed securitization to become a problem before the financial crisis of 2008. However, I also demonstrate how the measures leave many important issues such as incentives of the financial sector unsolved as well as how the regulatory arbitrage between financial institutions is still partly in place.Description
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Murto, PauliMustonen, Mikko
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financial regulation, securities, financial crisis of 2008, Basel Committee, Dodd-Frank Act