research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests that securitization itself may not have been a problem, but rather the …The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent …

securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …

the CRT programs have been successful in reducing the exposure of the federal government to mortgage credit risk without … disrupting the liquidity or stability of mortgage secondary markets. In the process, the programs have created a new financial … market for pricing and trading mortgage credit risk, which has grown in size and liquidity over time. The CRT programs …

covered bond market bears a number of similarities to U.S. agency securitization. In this paper we describe the key features … of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and contrast it to the U.S. system. We also note characteristics of the … Danish model that may be of interest as the United States considers further mortgage finance reform. In particular, the …

understanding for the motivation to originate securitization products is less discovered. Therefor this paper tries to identify main … to securitize that are in line with observable behavior of market participants. US banks use securitization mainly as … and performance improvement. For German banks securitization seems to be an appropriate funding tool. The proposed …

Mortgage originators use credit score cutoff rules to determine how carefully to screen loan applicants. Recent … research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed … jump in defaults at the cutoff would imply that securitization led to lax screening. We argue instead that originators …

done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions: the borrower's choice to default on a mortgage and … illustrate that unaffordable loans, defined as those with high mortgage payments relative to income at origination, are unlikely … for the low number of modifications to date than contract frictions related to securitization agreements between servicers …

This paper examines racial disparities in mortgage processing time prior to the global financial crisis. We find that … segments of mortgage markets, faster lenders within each segment, and the types of loan products that are processed faster, all …

We study how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) influenced the behavior of Agency mortgage real estate …. We document that Agency mortgage REITs: [i] equity prices reacted to QE announcements and in a manner consistent with …