"Mortgage-related hit worse than expected" has been a frequently cited phrase in recent months, and is usually followed … by a list of victims consisting of banks and hedge funds. Although the current mortgage mess was caused by the subprime … mortgage or bad credit mortgage, the broad impact of this subprime crisis promotes more concern in the loan lenders, the …

, that was motivated by the US mortgage market crisis. Banks' lending standards have been criticized to have contributed to … current mortgage crisis. We analyze an interest rate freeze on adjustable rate mortgages as one possible reaction. We study … the implications on tranches of residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) sold briefly after origination, taking into …

Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

Since the start of the financial crisis, various forms of securitization have been criticized for causing the problems … to this market. Our study focuses on the use of receivables securitization by non-financial firms, and we investigate who … filings of 242 users of securitization across the fiscal years 2006 and 2007, and combining it with accounting information …

-based activity of interest is asset securitization, though a number of other specific fee-based income-generating activities, such as … proportion of total assets securitized. This indicates that prior to the subprime mortgage crisis, a narrowing difference between … value. Moreover, large banks did not significantly alter their capital levels upon asset securitization, regardless of asset …

disintermediation, securitization and an increase in the importance of nonbank financial intermediaries (Schmidt, Hackethal and Tyrell …

This dissertation is a collection of four independent research papers. All papers deal with credit securitization. In … on such securitization structures by analysing various aspects. The first paper takes a closer look at securitizations of … enhancements in such securitization transactions. Motivated by the subprime crisis, the third paper discusses the impact of an …