CDO market implosion and the pricing of subprime mortgage-backed securities

Yongheng Deng, Stuart Gabriel and Anthony B. Sanders

Journal of Housing Economics, 2011, vol. 20, issue 2, 68-80

Abstract: We evaluate the effects of CDO issuance on the pricing of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities. Upon controlling for mortgage option values and other well-established determinants of credit spreads, GMM results indicate that the emergence and rapid capitalization of the subprime-backed CDO market was associated with a significant tightening of subprime MBS-Treasury yield spreads. Results of VAR and other robustness tests serve to corroborate the findings. Dynamic simulation based on the impulse response function estimates indicates substantial subprime MBS spread widening in the wake of the recent implosion in the CDO market. Research findings suggest the importance of supply/demand shocks associated with innovations in derivative securities markets to the pricing of securitized subprime debt.

Keywords: Collateralized; debt; obligations; Subprime; crisis; Yield; spreads; on; mortgage-backed; securities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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