Are Lenders Overestimating Property Values Prior to Foreclosure? And if so, why? (January 27, 2012)

Originally, I was hoping to start this post with a link to some research a colleague and I just completed... (Category: Accounting, Economics, Financial Institutions)

Residential Foreclosure, Vacancy, and Abandonment (January 25, 2012)

Since the mid-2000s, researchers have been studying the impact of foreclosures on surrounding property values. A colleague and I recently... (Category: Economics, Empirical Legal Studies)

Complexity, Complicity, and Liability up the Securitization Food Chain (January 16, 2012)

This post is a summary of a working paper the two of us finished recently, available here. There are numerous... (Category: Economics, Finance, Financial Institutions, Securities)

Hello Conglomerate Readership (January 15, 2012)

We'd like to start by thanking Erik for inviting us to provide some posts to Conglomerate over the next two... (Category: )