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Jun 6, 2020 · Of course, these infiltrated the financial system and had adverse implications for financial balance sheets and availability of funding, despite financial intermediaries in the United States beginning the recent crisis with a relatively strong capital base. 1 However, provision for loan losses increased at the end of the first quarter of 2020 and more substantially at the end of the second ...
opacity and interconnectedness, adequate buffers and reserves, the import for asset pricing, moral hazard (though only in the Great Recession was that the cause of the crisis), the government as a systemic actor and the import for economic concentration. *cspatt@andrew.cmu.edu; Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.
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Dec 1, 2020 · Thus, similarities can be found, for example, between the recession of 2008-2009, which was based on the US mortgage market, and the Covid-19 crisis (Spatt, 2020). It was the Covid-19 crisis that ...
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It is without a doubt that moral hazard played a significant role in propping up the financial crisis. While the extent to which moral hazard caused the Crisis has been debated, the evidence points to it being the principal cause of the crisis altogether. The Economic Times defines moral hazard as “a situation in which one party gets involved ...
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May 15, 2020 · The moral hazard risk in allowing economically stressed borrowers to defer mortgage payments has never been higher. For borrowers whose loans are in pools backed by the agencies, or 70% of the mortgage market, forbearance is literally a few clicks away, requires no documentation, is interest free, and does not affect their credit scores!
During the first half of 2020, the difference in savings from mortgage refinancing between high- and low-income borrowers was ten times higher than before. This was the result of two factors: high-income borrowers increased their refinancing activity more than otherwise comparable low-income borrowers and, conditional on refinancing, they captured slightly larger improvements in interest rates.
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May 4, 2020 · The United States economy is in free fall, with tens of millions of people unemployed and countless businesses at risk of collapse. Congress has already allocated nearly $3 trillion to contain the ...
