Fire Sales in Frozen Markets /
It is challenging to explain the collapse in the price of subprime mortgage-backed securities (MBS) during the Financial Crisis of 2008, using the existing models of fire-sale. I present a model to demonstrate that fire-sales may happen even when there is a relatively sizable pool of natural buyers...
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| Format: | Journal |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2019.
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| Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2019/092 |
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| Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |