Fostel, Ana; Geanakoplos, John - 2011
, since it implies that creating a derivative tranche in the securitization whose payoffs are identical to the CDS will raise …We show how the timing of financial innovation might have contributed to the mortgage boom and then to the bust of 2007 …-2009. We study the effect of leverage, tranching, securitization and CDS on asset prices in a general equilibrium model with …