@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00011293, author = {水野, 伸昭 and Mizuno, Nobuaki}, issue = {3}, journal = {経済科学}, month = {Dec}, note = {Under the circumstances of low interest rates and high liquidity, major banks and investors in the U.S. and Europe increased demands for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by subprime mortgages. As these products were successively downgraded in 2007, they suffered large losses. In 2008, 25 regional banks failed in the U.S. and it is the highest number since 1993. Did these banks fail because of the “subprime problem”? In this paper, we empirically studied this hypothesis using the data of FDIC etc. We found that for mortgage specialization banks, the increase of overdue prime mortgage and for commercial lending specialization banks, the increase of overdue construction and development loans, were the main reasons for their failures, respectively. They had few subprime MBS. Thus, the remedies for the ”subprime problem” should include ones for not only subprime mortgages but also mortgages as a whole and further the real estate markets.}, pages = {17--35}, title = {サブプライム問題と2008年米国地方銀行の破綻について}, volume = {57}, year = {2009} }