Provides an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational frictions that arise.

Divided into four parts, this book addresses a variety of important topics, including mortgage credit (non-agency, first and second lien), mortgage securitizations (alternate structures and subprime triggers), credit default swaps on ...

Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust analyzes how the subprime market emerged, why it is in crisis, and how we can reform public policy to avert disaster.

Analyzes the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis on urban neighborhoods in Mass.

This article compares default patterns among prime and subprime mortgages, analyzes the factors correlated with default, and examines how forecasts of defaults are affected by alternative assumptions about trends in home prices.

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.

Subprime mortgage lending expanded in New York City between 2004 and mid-2007, and delinquencies on these subprime loans have been rising sharply.

This Element is an excerpt form Financial Shock: Global Panic and Government Bailouts--How We Got Here and What Must Be Done to Fix It (ISBN: 9780137016631) by Mark Zandi.

The accounts of mortgage frauds by industry insiders presented in this book provide a chilling view of the criminal implications of an unregulated financial industry.

This book is a provocative wake-up call for us to reconsider the structures of housing finance and housing policy if we are to avoid another crisis.

"This book presents the perspectives of experts on the subprime mortgage crisis, discussing what it is, how it occurred, who is to blame, and how to navigate through the flood of lawsuits it is generating.

In this book, the authors provide an overview of the sub-prime mortgage securitisation process and the seven key informational frictions that arise.

This paper explores the question of whether market participants could have or should have anticipated the large increase in foreclosures that occurred in 2007 and 2008.

Featuring partners from some of the nations leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through the evolution of prior market bubbles and recoveries, and offer insight as to how this crisis compares to previous economic downturns.

In October 2008, in the midst of a financial crisis, Anthony Keating, investment manager at the Boston private bank Billingsley, Blaylock, and Montgomery, was searching for an investment strategy to recommend to his high-net-worth clients.