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The Financial Crisis and the Economic Outlook
Ted GayerDecember 16, 2009
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Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis Culprits
Housing Bubble
• Psychology (animal spirits).
• Global imbalances (searching for yield).
• Fed funds rate (Greenspan’s put).
• Housing tax policies.
• Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).
• Deteriorating underwriting standards.
Financial Crisis
• Poor risk-based models (mispriced risk).
• Credit rating agencies.
• Risk-based capital requirements and regulatory arbitrage.
• High leverage and low liquidity.
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Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
S&P/Case-Shiller 10 and 20-city composite indices.
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Mortgage
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Traditional BankingGary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick, “Securitized Banking and the Run on Repo.” Working Paper 15223 (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2009): figure 1.
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Investors
BankDirect Lenders
Borrowers
CDO Pool of ABS
SPV Pool of Loans
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Securitized BankingAdaptation of Gorton and Metrick (2009), figures 2 & 6.
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Weak Labor Markets
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, & BLS.
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Plunge in Household Wealth
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Household wealth relative to income Average since 1980
Federal Reserve Board, Flow of Funds, & FRED.
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Lending Conditions: CRE and Small Businesses
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Banks tighteningstandards onCRE loans
Q4Small businesses findingloans less available
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Federal Reserve Board, “Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Policies” (Oct. 2009), & National Federation of Independent Business “Small Business Economic Trends.”
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Vacant for rent
Vacant for sale
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Oversupply of Housing
Housing Market Fundamentals
Census Bureau, Housing Vacancy Survey.
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Housing Market Fundamentals
Percent of mortgaged property underwater Loan to value ratio
California 35% 72%
Florida 45% 87%
Arizona 48% 91%
Nevada 65% 114%
Michigan 37% 84%
New York 6% 49%
Nation 23% 70%
First American Core Logic, “Negative Equity Report” (Q3 2009).
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Housing Market Fundamentals
Price-to-Rent Ratio
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Composite-10 Composite-20
S&P/Case-Shiller 10 and 20-city composite indices & BLS.
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Housing Market Fundamentals
“New and Existing Home Sales: The Distressing Gap,” Calculated Risk: Finance & Economics (October 28, 2009).
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Revenues & Outlays in CBO’s Baseline, 1969-2019
Douglas W. Elmendorf, “The Budget and Economic Outlook.” Presentation to the National Economists Club (September 24, 2009).
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Doug Elmendorf, “Federal Budget Challenges.” Economics Lecture at Harvard University (April 2009).
Federal Debt Held by the Public
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Treasury Yield Curve
Treasury Yield Curve
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Treasury rates as of 12/11/2009
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates (December 11, 2009).
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Debt Maturity
U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Quarterly Refunding Charts” (11/30/09).
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Federal Reserve Balance Sheet: Assets
Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta, “Financial Highlights” (Dec. 2, 2009).
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Federal Reserve Balance Sheet: Liabilities
Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta, “Financial Highlights” (Dec. 2, 2009).
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• WSJ Survey of Forecasters (12/11/09): Modest Recovery
• GDP growth = 3% through 2010
•Unemployment rate of 9.6% at end of next year.
The Path of Real GDP in Previous Business Cycles
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P (T
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Quarters from Trough
The Path of Real GDP in Previous Business Cycles
The Wall Street Journal, “Economic Forecasting Survey” (December 2009).