research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests that securitization itself may not have been a problem, but rather the …The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent …

covered bond market bears a number of similarities to U.S. agency securitization. In this paper we describe the key features … of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and contrast it to the U.S. system. We also note characteristics of the … Danish model that may be of interest as the United States considers further mortgage finance reform. In particular, the …

We study how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) influenced the behavior of Agency mortgage real estate …. We document that Agency mortgage REITs: [i] equity prices reacted to QE announcements and in a manner consistent with …

We examine the payoff performance, up to the end of 2013, of non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS …), issued up to 2008. We have created a new and detailed data set on the universe of non-agency residential mortgage backed …

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 …

subprime home mortgage market, a market that owed its existence to private-label securitization. The pre-crisis boom in private … label mortgage-backed securities could never have happened, however, without financing from an array of structured products … mortgage credit risk and transmitted it into the financial system's vulnerable nodes.The post-crisis regulation has proceeded …

We develop a framework to explore the effect of credit ratings on loan origination and securitization. In the model …

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 address the moral hazard problem of securitization using a principal-agent model where the investor is the principal … and the lender is the agent. Our model considers structured asset-backed securitization with a credit enhancement …

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 …