"This paper quantifies the scale and scope of the commercial real estate mortgage bond market in the period surrounding … the 1920s in an attempt to better understand the role of retail mortgage debt in early urban development. In particular … utilizes a unique data set to construct a commercial mortgage price index over the period 1926-1935. A substantial retail …

We study credit ratings on subprime and Alt-A mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) deals issued between 2001 and 2007, the … period leading up to the subprime crisis. The fraction of highly rated securities in each deal is decreasing in mortgage … underperformance (high mortgage defaults and losses and large rating downgrades) among deals with observably higher risk mortgages …

) explicit modelling of repayment and interest-only CWMs; (b) closed form formulae for mortgage payment and mortgage balance of a … repayment CWM; (c) a closed form formula for the actuarially fair mortgage rate of an interest-only CWM. For repayment CWMs we …

and mortgage credit cycle based on relevant literature and, second, to present cases of two countries - Korea and the U ….S. - in terms of evolution of, and recent milestone events in, residential mortgage lending sector in each country, observed … patterns housing price and mortgage credit cycles, and key causal relationships found from data analyses. Our results show that …