Seminar 217, Risk Management: The Securitization and Solicited Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy

Seminar 217, Risk Management: The Securitization and Solicited Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy

Risk Seminar
Apr 5, 2018, 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Speaker: Rupal Kamdar, UC Berkeley (Speaker - Featured)
I document the “securitization and solicited refinancing channel,” a novel transmission mechanism of monetary policy and its heterogenous regional effects. The mechanism predicts that mortgage lenders who sell their originations to Government Sponsored Enterprises or into securitizations no longer hold the loan’s prepayment risk, and when rates drop, these lenders are more likely to signal to...