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Complexity in Structured Finance
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We study complexity in the market for securitized products, a market at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007-9. The complexity of these products rose substantially in the years preceding the financial crisis. We find that securities in more complex deals default more and have lower realized returns. The worse performance is economically meaningful: a one standard deviation increase in complexity represents an 18% increase in default on AAA securities. However, yields of more complex securities are not higher indicating that investors did not perceive them as riskier. Our results are consistent with complexity obfuscating security quality.
Keywords:
Complexity
Security design
MBS performance
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