We explore the capital structure and governance of a mortgage-insuring securitization utility operating with government … for appropriate pricing and transfer of mortgage risks across the private sector and between the private sector and the … mortgage guarantee fee, whose size we find is most sensitive to the required capital ratio and the expected return on that …

We explore the capital structure and governance of a mortgage-insuring securitization utility operating with government … for appropriate pricing and transfer of mortgage risks across the private sector and between the private sector and the … mortgage guarantee fee, whose size we find is most sensitive to the required capital ratio and the expected return on that …

remains a focus of public policy. -- GSE ; MBS ; mortgage … this model are consistent with preserving the “to-be-announced,” or TBA, market – particularly if the fixed-rate mortgage …

We explore the capital structure and governance of a mortgage-insuring securitization utility operating with government … for appropriate pricing and transfer of mortgage risks across the private sector and between the private sector and the … mortgage guarantee fee, whose size we find is most sensitive to the required capital ratio and the expected return on that …

this model are consistent with preserving the “to-be-announced,” or TBA, market – particularly if the fixed-rate mortgage …

. First, it demonstrates that the bubble was a supply-side phenomenon attributable to an excess of mispriced mortgage finance …: mortgage-finance spreads declined and volume increased, even as risk increased—a confluence attributable only to an oversupply … of mortgage finance. Second, it explains the mortgage-finance supply glut as resulting from the failure of markets to …

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 …

Agency mortgage backed securities (MBS) with diverse characteristics are traded in parallel with individualized … this unique parallel trading environment significantly affects MBS returns: (1) Greater heterogeneity in MBS values … increases the yields of all MBS, because it exacerbates the cheapest-to-deliver concerns for TBA buyers and reduces the value of …

willingness of originators to initiate loans. Since the supply of loanable funds is larger, mortgage rates are lower than would … mortgages to the GSEs, they ignored adverse selection problems.Buyers of GSE debt, trusting in the implicit government guarantee …, ignored the moral hazard associated GSE policy. Given that both originators and the ultimate funders faced little of the …

government backing of the mortgage market. Nonetheless, the dominance of the crown corporation CMHC in the mortgage insurance … market concentrates a significant amount of risk in public finances. Improving competitive conditions in the mortgage …