Credit Equity Research Articles

Dimensions of Responsiveness to Women's Policies in the Fifty States

Factor analysis of the simple incidence of 88 "women's public policies" across the 50 states reveals 9 patterns of response. Each of these dimensions reflects a variety of policy concerns; but close examination suggests a range along a continuum from the maintenance of traditional roles (patriarchical protection, workplace protection, vestigial inequities) through the provision of role equity (minimal equity, political equity, credit equity, contemporary legal equity) to the promotion of role change (general sex neutrality, the partnership family).

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Mizrach analyzes the jump frequency in the MarketABX.HE Index of subprime home equity credit default swaps and CME housing futures. Jumps began to appear prior to 2007. The jumps are more pronounced in housing futures than in the ABX index. He explains nearly 85% of the jumps from news and housing futures.A 20-point slope in the housing futures curve leads to an expected jump of -1.4% in the BBB– ABX index. <b>TOPICS:</b>MBS and residential mortgage loans, asset-backed securities (ABS), financial crises and financial market history