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- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
negative amortization) turned millions of renters into homeowners. Subprime lending soared from near 0 in the early 1990s to 20.1 percent of all originations in 2006. The View Details
- January 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis
By: Aldo Musacchio and Dante Roscini
This case describes the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative easing) the Federal Reserve has used...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Money;
Financial Liquidity;
Central Banking;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo, and Dante Roscini. "Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 709-041, January 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
- March 2013
- Case
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks...
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Keywords:
Short Selling;
Financial Accounting;
Financial Analysis;
Financial Analysts;
Valuation;
Business Analysis;
Financial Statement Analysis;
Financial Statements;
Securitization;
Securities Analysis;
Fraud;
Accounting Quality;
Accounting Red Flags;
Accounting Restatements;
Hedge Fund;
Hedge Funds;
Accounting Scandal;
Accounting Fraud;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Intermediaries;
Financial Firms;
Corporate Accountability;
Subprime Lending;
Mortgage Lending;
Accounting;
Accrual Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
California
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Amy Kaser. "NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle." Harvard Business School Case 113-120, March 2013.
- November 2017
- Article
Credit-Induced Boom and Bust
By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in house prices and real economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy....
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Keywords:
Great Recession;
Subprime;
Credit Supply;
Credit Expansion;
Household Leverage;
Household Debt;
Preemption Rule;
Mortgages;
Laws and Statutes;
Credit;
Household;
Borrowing and Debt;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani. "Credit-Induced Boom and Bust." Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 11 (November 2017): 3711–3758. (Lead article and Editor's choice
Winner of the 2018 RFS Rising Scholar Award.)
- October 2019
- Article
Partial Deregulation and Competition: Effects on Risky Mortgage Origination
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Sanket Korgaonkar
We exploit the OCC's preemption of national banks from state laws against predatory lending as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. Following the preemption ruling, national...
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Keywords:
Great Recession;
Subprime;
Complex Mortgages;
Credit Supply;
Household Debt;
Preemption Rule;
Competition;
Mortgages;
Government Legislation;
Credit;
Financial Crisis
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Sanket Korgaonkar. "Partial Deregulation and Competition: Effects on Risky Mortgage Origination." Management Science 65, no. 10 (October 2019).
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Reserve faced several critical decisions. Should they adjust interest rates? Was abandoning the gold standard an acceptable option? Should they lend more freely to the nation's commercial banks? Or would this only ensure the sorts of...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks the growth of the subprime industry and its collapse leading to the financial crisis. The case describes the business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to...
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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
already concern that, if left unchecked, small business lending could become the next subprime lending crisis. Traditional players, such as community banks, are weighing into...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
is in 2006 and 2007, when banks were offering subprime mortgages to just about anyone and junk-rated firms were borrowing in droves. “When it looks like everyone has loosened their lending standards, that...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
services where commonsense regulation is welcome and needed: online lending to businesses. Over the last few years online business lending has exploded. Dozens of “financial technology” (fintech) players...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
equity?" said Retsinas. On the issue of affordability, home prices rose so high that it became virtually impossible for people to take out regular or prime loans. "It's hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
right across the Western financial system. Not many people understood that defaults on subprime mortgages would destroy the value of exotic new asset-backed instruments like collateralized debt obligations. Not many people saw that, as...
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- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
company? So long as they are not triumphalist, large banks like JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo that were less involved in chasing too-good-to-be-true subprime returns have a differentiating advantage. But it's hard to rebuild consumer...
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- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
while abandoning any semblance of "professionalism." As readers, we are left to speculate how, if at all, this might have led to such phenomena as Enron, the management revolving door, and even today's subprime mortgage mess....
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized business model. I exploit variation in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national banks across...
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Sean Silverthorne