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Author:Passmore, Wayne 

Conference Paper
The simple microeconomics of government-sponsored enterprises

Proceedings , Paper 706

Working Paper
The GSE implicit subsidy and value of government ambiguity

The housing-related government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the "GSEs") have an ambiguous relationship with the federal government. Most purchasers of the GSEs' debt securities believe that this debt is implicitly backed by the U.S. government despite the lack of a legal basis for such a belief. In this paper, I estimate how much GSE shareholders gain from this ambiguous government relationship. I find that (1) the federal government's implicit subsidy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has resulted in a funding advantage for the GSEs over private sector institutions, (2) ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2003-64

Working Paper
The effect of automated underwriting on the profitability of mortgage securitization

Over the past two years, many mortgage market analysts have praised automated underwriting as a technological innovation that will lower the costs of processing mortgage applications. However, automated underwriting is unlikely to decrease processing costs uniformly for all mortgage applications. Instead, it makes identifying and processing low-risk mortgage borrowers less costly, but may not significantly lower the costs of identifying and processing relatively high-risk applicants. Our results suggest that after the one-time cost reduction produced by automated underwriting, the resulting ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1997-19

Working Paper
Federal Home Loan Bank advances and commercial bank portfolio composition

This paper considers the role of Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances in stabilizing their commercial bank members' residential mortgage lending activities. Our theoretical model shows that using mortgage-related membership criteria or requiring mortgage-related collateral does not ensure that FHLB advances will be put to use for stabilizing members' financing of housing. Using panel vector autoregression (VAR) techniques, we estimate recent dynamic responses of U.S. bank portfolios to FHLB advance shocks, bank lending shocks, and macroeconomic shocks. Our empirical findings suggest that ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2007-17

Working Paper
Optimal bank portfolios and the credit crunch

Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 94-19

Conference Paper
An update to the GSE implicit subsidy and the value of government ambiguity

Proceedings , Paper 948

Journal Article
Is mortgage lending by savings associations special?

In this paper, we investigate whether elimination of the savings association charter might reduce lending to "nontraditional" (e.g., low-income) mortgage borrowers. We present a theoretical model of lender portfolio choice, in which nontraditional lenders have some market power and traditional lenders are price-takers in the mortgage market. The comparative statics indicate differences between nontraditional and traditional lenders in terms of their asset allocation responses to changes in borrower income and house prices. Empirical tests indicate the absence of such differences between ...
Economic Review

Working Paper
Is mortgage lending by savings associations special?

In this paper, we investigate whether elimination of the savings association charter might reduce lending to nontraditional mortgage borrowers. We present a theoretical model of lender portfolio choice, in which nontraditional lenders have some market power and traditional lenders are price-takers in the mortgage market. The comparative statics indicate differences between nontraditional and traditional lenders in terms of their asset allocation responses to changes in borrower income and house prices. Empirical tests indicate the absence of such differences between savings associations and ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1998-25

Conference Paper
Strategic niche and the profitability of banking

Proceedings , Paper 125

Working Paper
Putting the squeeze on a market for lemons: government-sponsored mortgage securitization

Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 95-13

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