Anatomy of a Trade: The Making of a Subprime CDO

Steven Kasoff ()
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Steven Kasoff: YPFS, Yale School of Management, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal-of-financial-crises/

Journal of Financial Crises, 2022, vol. 4, issue 1, 379-406

Abstract: This article presents a short story, a sketch in eight parts of a single fictitious subprime collateralized debt obligation (CDO) transaction. The story is informed by expert interviews, documentary research, and the author's firsthand experience.

Keywords: collateralized debt obligations (CDOs); CDO origination process; excessive leverage; Global Financial Crisis (GFC); housing bubble; subprime CDO; Wall Street (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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