Was the US subprime crisis the prime mover? The limits of the ‘critical urbanist’ interpretation of the UK financial crisis [PDF]
The aim of this chapter is to challenge the argument popular among ‘critical urbanist’ writers that the subprime crisis in the US played a crucial and necessary role in the US and UK financial crisis. It will be argued that this view exaggerates the role
Chris Pickvance, Pickvance, Chris
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Global Financial Meltdown – Systematic Literature Review A Qualitative Research Study
Global Financial Meltdown was a major economic crisis in the recent past. It had devastating effects throughout the world. A clear understanding of the global financial meltdown is very necessary as it raised lots of concerns on the contemporary ...
Salman Sarwat, Syed Shabib ul Hasan
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Ameliorating Local Impacts with Architectural Research: Subprime Mortgages & Housing Quality
Shock waves from the current housing crisis that still echo through Wall Street’s largest financial firms, not only have threatened to topple financial markets and drive the country into a depression, but have also undermined the all-time high home ...
Lynne M. Dearborn
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Being Naked - et Quo hinc?: Developing a ‘Skin-in-the-Game’ Solution for Credit Default Swaps
A credit default swap (CDS) is a derivative financial instrument that provides insurance against credit risk. CDSs on subprime Asset Backed Securities (ABSs) paved the way for securitizers to hedge the credit risk of the underlying subprime loans during ...
Shanuka Senarath +4 more
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Mortgage Guarantee Programs and the Subprime Crisis [PDF]
F a l l V o l . 5 1 , N o . 1 R E P R I N T S E R I E S California Management Review Mortgage Guarantee Programs and the Subprime Crisis D w i g h t M . J a f f e e J o h n M . Q u i g l e y © 2008 by The Regents of the University of California Copyrighted material.
Jaffee, Dwight M., Quigley, John M.
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The Role of Mortgage Brokers in the Subprime Crisis [PDF]
We study the role of mortgage brokers in the subprime crisis using a detailed sample of loans originated by, formerly, one of the largest subprime loan originators, New Century Financial Corporation. Prior to the subprime crisis, mortgage brokerage firms originated about 65% of all subprime mortgages and yet little is known about their behavior and ...
Antje Berndt +2 more
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Portraying the global financial crisis: Myth, aesthetics, and the city
From 2007 until today an intricate set of events has been unsettling the global financial markets. The naming of these incidents has been multifold, varying between a general rhetoric of economic downturn (‘crash’, ‘crunch’, ‘meltdown’, ‘hangover’) and ...
Miriam Meissner
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Subprime Babies: The Foreclosure Crisis and Initial Health Endowments
The subprime mortgage crisis was a devastating financial shock for many homeowners. This research uses a probabilistic matching strategy to link foreclosure records with birth certificate records from 2006 to 2010 in California to identify birth parents ...
Janelle Downing, Tim Bruckner
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The political economy of the subprime crisis: the economics, politics and ethics of response [PDF]
Media and policy discourses on the subprime crisis and the ensuing credit crunch have been dominated by historical analogies, whereby a sense of how bad things have been since the autumn of 2007 arises from comparing the situation directly to other ...
Watson, M +4 more
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A Primer on Regulations and the Practice of Residential Property Appraisal
This paper presents a chronology, beginning in the early 1900s, of the regulatory environment faced by residential real estate appraisers in the United States.
Owiti A. K'Akumu, James E. Larsen
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