Malamud, Semyon; Rui, Huaxia; Whinston, Andrew B. - 2010
We solve the problem of optimal securitization for an issuer facing heterogeneous investors with arbitrary time and … risk preferences. We show that the optimal securitization is characterized by multiple nonlinear tranches, and each … investor gets a portfolio of these tranches. In particular, when all agents have CARA utilities, the linear tranching is …