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Agency mortgage-backed securities trade simultaneously in a market for specified pools (SPs) and in the to …
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In this paper, we provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational … how rating agencies assign credit ratings to mortgage-backed securities, and outline how these agencies monitor the … performance of mortgage pools over time. Throughout the paper, we draw upon the example of a mortgage pool securitized by New …
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Since December 2008, the Federal Reserve’s traditional policy instrument, the target federal funds rate, has been effectively at its lower bound of zero. In order to further ease the stance of monetary policy as the economic outlook deteriorated, the Federal Reserve purchased substantial...
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We study credit ratings on subprime and Alt-A mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) deals issued between 2001 and 2007, the … period leading up to the subprime crisis. The fraction of highly rated securities in each deal is decreasing in mortgage … underperformance (high mortgage defaults and losses and large rating downgrades) among deals with observably higher risk mortgages …
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This paper measures the effects on the primary U.S. mortgage market of the large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) program in …
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