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Creditor rights, collateral reuse, and credit supply

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  • Lewis, Brittany Almquist

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Securities dealers receive mortgages as collateral for credit lines provided to mortgage companies and reuse the same collateral to borrow money. Exploiting the 2005 BAPCPA rule change, which granted mortgage collateral preferred bankruptcy treatment, I find that strengthening creditor rights increases dealers’ collateral reuse. Increasing collateral reuse creates a money multiplier that increases credit supply. Using a novel dataset linking dealers to the mortgage companies they fund reveals that post-BAPCPA, dealers supply additional credit to mortgage companies by increasing credit lines and relaxing restrictions on collateral securing them. In response, mortgage companies increase origination volume and shift into riskier products.

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  • Lewis, Brittany Almquist, 2023. "Creditor rights, collateral reuse, and credit supply," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(3), pages 451-472.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jfinec:v:149:y:2023:i:3:p:451-472
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.06.001
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    Repo; Creditor rights; Rehypothecation; Money multiplier; Bapcpa;
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    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation

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