The Social Science Research Network is an excellent source of academic papers regarding many different topics. Don't be misled by the Social Science name, as the site has many financial and investing related papers.
Over the next week or so, I will post a list of the top ten downloaded financial or investing related papers. Some of them are classics and some may be a little surprising. Most of them are free to download as well.
This is the ninth most downloaded paper related to a financial or investing topic.
Understanding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis - By Yuliya Demyanyk and Otto Van Hemert - 21,793 downloads.
Abstract
"Using loan-level data, we analyze the quality of subprime mortgage loans by adjusting their performance for differences in borrower characteristics, loan characteristics, and macroeconomic conditions. We find that the quality of loans deteriorated for six consecutive years before the crisis and that securitizers were, to some extent, aware of it. We provide evidence that the rise and fall of the subprime mortgage market follows a classic lending boom-bust scenario, in which unsustainable growth leads to the collapse of the market. Problems could have been detected long before the crisis, but they were masked by high house price appreciation between 2003 and 2005."
Number 10.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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