Dwight M. Jaffee: Research Home Page
Booth Professor of Banking and
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Vitae (in PDF format) Mortgage Market Papers

Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Member,
Haas Real Estate Group,
Haas Finance Group,
Chairman, Haas Real Estate Group
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for
Real Estate and Urban Economics
Academic Status 2005-2006: On duty
Tel:
510-642-1273
fax:
510-643-7441
Email: jaffee@haas.berkeley.edu
Recent Research Papers (In PDF format, most current at top of each group)
The U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Issues Raised and Lessons Learned (May 2008)
Monoline Restrictions, with Applications to Mortgage Insurance and Title Insurance (RIO, 2006)
What to do About Fannie and Freddie (with Edward Glaser), The Economist's Voice September 2006
Reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Regulation, Fall 2006
The Risk-Based Capital Test for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Gerd M. Welke), Presented at ASSA Meetings, December 2004.
The Interest Rate Risk of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Journal of Financial Services Research, December 2003)
Securitization in European Mortgage Markets (with Bertrand Renaud)
Strategies to Develop Mortgage Markets in Transition Economics (with Bertrand Renaud)
Implications for Mortgage Industry Structure (Hermalin & Jaffee), part 1.
Implications for Mortgage Industry Structure (Hermalin & Jaffee), part 2.
Catastrophe Insurance (Terrorism and Earthquakes)
Should Governments Provide Catastrophe Insurance (with Tom Russell in the Economists' Voice) OECD Report, Nov 23, 2004
Markets Under Stress: The Case of Extreme Event Insurance (With Thomas Russell, Stiglitz Festschrift)
Behavioral Models of Insurance: The Case of the California Earthquake Authority (NBER 2000)
Financial Markets and Financial Intermediaries: The Case of Catastrophe Insurance (NBER 1999)
Catastrophe Insurance, Capital Markets, and Uninsurable Risks (Journal of Risk and Insurance, June 1997)
Can Security Markets Save the Private Catastrophe Insurance Market
Catastrophe Insurance When Capital is Limited: A Comparison of Public and Private Approaches
Trade and Employment
On Intra-Firm Trade and Multinationals: Foreign Outsourcing and Offshoring in Manufacturing (published in Multinationals and Foreign Investment in Economic Development, Edited by Edward M. Graham, Palgrave Macmillan 2005.
Globalization and a High-Tech Economy: California, the United States, and Beyond (with Ashok Bardhan and Cynthia Kroll), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Available for purchase at SpringerOnLine or Amazon
Foreign Trade and California’s Economic Growth
(full report and Policy Brief), California Policy Seminar, Berkeley, 1998 (with
Ashok Bardhan, Josh Kirschenbaum, Cynthia Kroll, and David Howe).
International Trade and California's Economy: Data, Chapter 2
International Trade and California's Economy: Statistical Tests, Chapter 3
Auto Insurance Papers (with Thomas Russell)
The Regulation of Auto Insurance in California, (Book Chapter, 2001)
The Causes and Consequences of Rate Regulation in the Auto Insurance Industry (Book Chapter, 1998)
Transition Economies
Structure of Banking Systems in Developed and Transition Economies
Russian Banking (FRB of San Francisco, 1995)