A leading explanation for the lack of widespread mortgage renegotiation during the financial crisis is the existence of … frictions in the mortgage securitization process. This paper finds little evidence that the securitization process impeded the … representative dataset on seriously delinquent mortgage borrowers from the first quarter of 2005 through the third quarter of 2008 …

these GSEs as mortgage market conditions deteriorated in 2007 and 2008. The analysis focuses on a key element of OFHEO …

for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We study a key component of OFHEOs model - 30-year fixed-rate mortgage performance - and … in a significant underprediction of mortgage credit losses and associated capital needs at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac …

We present 12 facts about the mortgage crisis. We argue that the facts refute the popular story that the crisis … resulted from finance industry insiders deceiving uninformed mortgage borrowers and investors. Instead, we argue that borrowers … prices. We then show that neither institutional features of the mortgage market nor financial innovations are any more likely …