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Testimony on housing finance reform: essential elements of a government guarantee for mortgage-backed securities
Tracy, Joseph (2013)
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Speech , Paper 122

Working Paper
Reducing foreclosures: no easy answers
Goette, Lorenz; Gerardi, Kristopher; Foote, Christopher L.; Willen, Paul S. (2009)
This paper takes a skeptical look at a leading argument about what is causing the foreclosure crisis and what should be done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions: the borrower's choice to default on a mortgage and the lender's subsequent choice whether to renegotiate or modify the loan. The theoretical model and econometric analysis illustrate that unaffordable loans, defined as those with high mortgage payments relative to income at origination, are unlikely to be the main reason that borrowers decide to default. In addition, this paper provides theoretical ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2009-15

Discussion Paper
Reviving mortgage securitization: lessons from the Brady Plan and duration analysis
Mann, Catherine L.; Gumbau-Brisa, Fabia (2009)
We review the period of the Latin American debt crisis in order to draw policy analogies from that experience for current U.S. credit securitization markets. During the earlier episode the Brady Plan used a zero-coupon U.S. Treasury security to provide a credit enhancement for the troubled assets. This revitalized the market for Latin American debt by: (1) ameliorating the dual solvency problem that affected both creditors and debtors, and (2) revealing asset prices as dominated by risk fundamentals rather than by short-run factors. The cost of the Brady plan was quite small relative to its ...
Public Policy Discussion Paper , Paper 09-3

Working Paper
An analysis of the potential competitive impacts of Basel II capital standards on U.S. mortgage rates and mortgage securitization
Hancock, Diana; Sherlund, Shane M.; Passmore, Wayne; Lehnert, Andreas (2005)
Basel II White Paper , Paper 3

Report
Understanding the securitization of subprime mortgage credit
Ashcraft, Adam B.; Schuermann, Til (2008)
In this paper, we provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational frictions that arise. We discuss the ways that market participants work to minimize these frictions and speculate on how this process broke down. We continue with a complete picture of the subprime borrower and the subprime loan, discussing both predatory borrowing and predatory lending. We present the key structural features of a typical subprime securitization, document how rating agencies assign credit ratings to mortgage-backed securities, and outline how these agencies ...
Staff Reports , Paper 318

Report
MBS ratings and the mortgage credit boom
Ashcraft, Adam B.; Vickery, James; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul (2010)
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 credit risk (measured either ex ante or ex post), suggesting that ratings contain useful information for investors. However, we also find evidence of significant time variation in risk-adjusted credit ratings, including a progressive decline in standards around the MBS market peak between the start of 2005 and mid-2007. Conditional on initial ratings, we ...
Staff Reports , Paper 449

Speech
A preliminary assessment of the TALF
Dudley, William (2009)
Remarks at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and Pension Real Estate Association's Public-Private Investment Program Summit, New York City.
Speech , Paper 6

Speech
Lessons at the zero bound: the Japanese and U.S. experience
Dudley, William (2013)
Remarks at the Japan Society, New York City.
Speech , Paper 105

Working Paper
\"Cream-skimming\" in subprime mortgage securitizations : which subprime mortgage loans were sold by depository institutions prior to the crisis of 2007?
Henderson, Christopher; Calem, Paul S.; Liles, Jonathan (2010)
Depository institutions may use information advantages along dimensions not observed or considered by outside parties to "cream-skim," meaning to transfer risk to naive, uninformed, or unconcerned investors through the sale or securitization process. This paper examines whether "cream-skimming" behavior was common practice in the subprime mortgage securitization market prior to its collapse in 2007. Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data merged with data on subprime loan delinquency by ZIP code, the authors examine the bank decision to sell (securitize) subprime mortgages originated in ...
Working Papers , Paper 10-8

Conference Paper
The trust preferred CDO market : from start to (expected) finish
Hopkins, Michael; Cordell, Lawrence R.; Huang, Yilin (2011)
Proceedings , Paper 1128

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