Mandated Risk Retention in Mortgage Securitization: An Economist's View

Paul Willen

American Economic Review, 2014, vol. 104, issue 5, 82-87

Abstract: I evaluate the empirical premise and the economic logic of the Dodd-Frank Act's requirement that issuers of asset-backed securities retain credit risk.

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Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.82
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