This paper argues that during the housing bubble, housing finance markets failed to price risk correctly because of information failure caused by the complexity and heterogeneity of private-label mortgage-backed securities and structured finance products. Addressing the informational problems...

This United States Supreme Court amicus curiae brief was filed in the joint cases of Bank of America v. Caulkett and Bank of America v. Toledo-Cardona, which pose the question of whether a wholly underwater second-lien mortgage may be lien-stripped in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. A previous Supreme...

Introduction: In praise of homeownership -- Housing finance before the New Deal -- The New Deal mortgage -- The rise of securitization -- The boom and the bubble -- The bubble bursts -- Timing the bubble -- Demand or supply? -- Theories of the bubble -- The securitization daisy chain --...