Securitization and the dark side of diversification
Published: 28 March 2012
Diversification by banks affects the systemic risk of the sector. Importantly, Wagner (2010) shows that linear diversification increases systemic risk. We consider the case of securitization, whereby loan portfolios are sliced into tranches with different seniority levels. We show that tranching offers nonlinear diversification strategies, which can reduce the failure risk of individual institutions beyond the minimum level attainable by linear diversification, without increasing systemic risk.
Keywords: Securitization, Diversification, Systemic risk, Risk management, Tranching.
JEL Classification Numbers: G11, G21.
Working paper no. 341
341 - Securitization and the dark side of diversification
Discover related articles
DNB uses cookies
We use cookies to optimise the user-friendliness of our website.
Read more about the cookies we use and the data they collect in our cookie notice.