Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

This paper considers the role of Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances in stabilizing their commercial bank members' residential mortgage lending activities. Our theoretical model shows that using mortgage-related membership criteria or requiring mortgage-related collateral does not ensure that...

This paper looks at the United States sub-prime mortgage crisis, exploring some of the factors leading to the crisis and its continuing effects on global credit markets. It is intended to be a very basic introduction to the topic aimed at gently navigating the reader through the key issues

There are two purposes of this article. Firstly, it examines the consequences for stakeholders, if the mortgage originator or subsequent assignee of its rights, e.g. the trustee issuer, become insolvent and considers the main legal and financial risk issues that can arise in an RMBS program in...

Federal and state regulators are currently considering the imposition of capital requirements and other prudential rules on various classes of non-bank financial institutions, including insurers and mortgage servicers. This report examines some of the issues involving non-bank financial...

This paper develops a formula to numerically estimate the unsubsidized, fair-market value of the toxic assets purchased with Federal Reserve loans. It finds that subsidy rates on these loans were on average 33.9 percent at origination. In contrast, by the 3rd quarter of the 2010, there was on...

We conduct an empirical investigation to explain observed differentials in mortgage overage pricing. Our analysis makes several contributions. First, we study an area of mortgage pricing that is little understood by consumers and has received little scrutiny in the literature. Second, we...

Mortgage-backed security prices have depended on interest rates, while idiosyncrasies of prepayments had obscured the effect of rates on portfolio value before the financial crisis. The principal components of balance sheet accounts identified managerial dimensions that could help clarify the...