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

Paul Willen

American Economic Review · 2014 · Volume 104 · Issue 5

DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.82

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.

Keywords

Banks, Depository Institutions, Micro Finance Institutions, Mortgages, Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation, Housing Supply and Markets, Production Analysis and Firm Location: Government Policy

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