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Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire?
Frame, W. Scott; White, Lawrence J. - 2004
mortgage finance. We describe the special features of these two companies and their roles in the mortgage markets. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005846884
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Emerging Competition and Risk-Taking Incentives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
White, Lawrence J.; Frame, W. Scott - Federal Reserve Bank <Atlanta, Ga.> - 2004
This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary conforming mortgage … market: 1) the expansion of Federal Home Loan Bank mortgage purchase programs, and 2) the adoption of revised risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005846886
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Property Derivatives and Index-Linked Mortgages
Syz, Juerg; Vanini, Paolo; Salvi, Marco - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2006
stabilization of the homeowner’s net wealth, price the instruments, and quantify the expected decrease in the mortgage default risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858211
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Risk Heterogeneity and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Mortgage Market
Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgagecontracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modeled using quantile regressions. Wepropose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the taxtreatment of housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248804
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The housing meltdown: Why did it happen in the United States?
Ellis, Luci - Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich <Basel> - 2008
The crisis enveloping global financial markets since August 2007 was triggered by actual and prospective credit losses on US mortgages. Was the United States just unlucky to have been the first to experience a housing crisis? Or was it inherently more susceptible to one? I examine the limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305060
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Optimal Securitization with Heterogeneous Investors
Malamud, Semyon; Rui, Huaxia; Whinston, Andrew B. - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010
We solve the problem of optimal securitization for an issuer facing heterogeneous investorswith arbitrary time and risk preferences. We show that the optimal securitizationis characterized by multiple nonlinear tranches, and each investor gets a portfolio of thesetranches. In particular, when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305109
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Credit Supply and the Price of Housing
Favara, Giovanni; Imbs, Jean - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2010
We show that since 1994, branching deregulations in the U.S have signi…cantly af-fected the supply of mortgage credit …, and ultimately house prices. With deregulation,the number and volume of originated mortgage loans increase, while denial … rates fall.But the deregulation has no effect on a placebo sample, formed of independent mort-gage companies that should not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522189
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Bank Risk Management and the Franchise Value
Bauer, Wolfgang; Ryser, Marc - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003
We analyze optimal risk management strategies for a regulatory restricted bank financed with deposits and equity in an infinite horizonmodel. The bank has a positive franchise value from rents coming from deposit related services (liquidity provision, payment services, safety storage), and from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859100
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Transparency through FinancialClaims with Fingerprints –A Free Market Mechanismfor Preventing MortgageSecuritization Induced FinancialCrises
Gründl, Helmut; Post, Thomas - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2009
Lack of transparency in securitization transactions significantly contributed to thesevere financial crisis of 2007–2009. To increase transparency we—based on arecent idea by Markowitz (2009)—propose an incentive compatible mechanismfor future securitization transactions: financial claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939784
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DIE INTERNATIONALE FINANZKRISE:URSACHEN, TREIBER, VERÄNDERUNGSBEDARF UNDREFORMANSÄTZE
Rudolph, Bernd - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2009
Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Aufarbeitung der Hintergründe der Subprime-Krisesowie der nachfolgenden internationalen Banken- und Finanzkrisen. Auf dieser Basis werden Vorschlägediskutiert, wie die erkannten Schwachstellen im Finanzsystem repariert bzw. behoben...
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