Joseph R. Mason

Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business

2900 Business Education Complex

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

United States

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton Financial Institutions Center

3641 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218

United States

  • Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business

    • Tel: 202-683-8909

  • University of Pennsylvania - Wharton Financial Institutions Center

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1.

Where Did the Risk Go? How Misapplied Bond Ratings Cause Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Market Disruptions

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Joseph R. Mason and Joshua Rosner
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Graham Fisher & Co.
Downloads 6,272 (2,618)
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subprime mortgage, bond ratings, collateralized debt obligations, CDO, RMBS, policy

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How Resilient are Mortgage Backed Securities to Collateralized Debt Obligation Market Disruptions?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Joseph R. Mason and Joshua Rosner
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Graham Fisher & Co.
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subprime mortgage, cllateralized debt obligations, structued finance, economic performance, recession

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Credit Card Securitization and Regulatory Arbitrage

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Credit Card Securitization and Regulatory Arbitrage

FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 03-7
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Jul 2004
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 1,264 (33,853)
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Credit Card Securitization

Credit Card Securitization and Regulatory Arbitrage

Journal of Financial Services Research, Vol. 26, No. 1, August 2004
Posted: 05 Aug 2004
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business

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Bank capital regulation, credit card banks, securitization

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Mortgage Loan Modification: Promises and Pitfalls

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 1,030 (46,352)
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subprime mortgage, servicing, modification, mitigation, mortgage crisis

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Structuring for Leverage: CPDOs, SIVs, and ARSs

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2008
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 828 (62,577)
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SIV, ARM, ARS, CPDO, Structured Finance. Structured Investment Vehicle, Auction Rate Market, Auction Rate Securitiy, Constant Proportional Debt Obligation

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Cliff Risk and the Credit Crisis

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2008
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
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Securitization, RMBS, Servicing, Gain-on-sale Accounting, Credit Crisis

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Regulating for Financial System Development, Financial Institutions Stability, and Financial Innovation

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Regulating for Financial System Development, Financial Institutions Stability, and Financial Innovation

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2009
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
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financial engineering, financial innovation, financial regulation, structured finance, securitization

Regulating for Financial System Development, Financial Institutions Stability, and Financial Innovation

Financial Market Regulation in the Wake of Financial Crises: The Historical Experience Conference p. 225, 2009
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Jul 2012
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
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Asset Sales, Recourse, and Investor Reactions to Initial Securitizations: Evidence Why Off-balance Sheet Accounting Treatment Does not Remove On-balance Sheet Financial Risk

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 May 2009 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2009
Joseph R. Mason, Eric James Higgins and Adi Mordel
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, Kansas State University - College of Business Administration and Drexel University - Bennett S. LeBow College of Business
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Bank Regulation, Securitization, Off-balance Sheet, Recourse, Bankruptcy-remote

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A Real Options Approach to Bankruptcy Costs: Evidence from Failed Commercial Banks During the 1990s

Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper No. 02-20
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Sep 2002
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 679 (81,044)
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bankruptcy costs, real options, corporate finance, banks, bank failures

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Fundamentals, Panics and Bank Distress During the Depression

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Dec 2002
Joseph R. Mason and Charles W. Calomiris
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 660 (84,216)
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banks, contagion, panic, distress, Great Depression

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What is the Value of Recourse to Asset Backed Securities? A Clinical Study of Credit Card Banks

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 03-6
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Eric James Higgins and Joseph R. Mason
Kansas State University - College of Business Administration and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 598 (95,371)
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Asset-backed financing, credit cards

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Subprime Servicer Reporting Can Do More for Modification than Government Subsidies

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2009
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 452 (134,464)
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Subprime mortgage, servicing, modification, securitization

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Evidence on Indirect Bankruptcy Costs: Liquidation Rates, Opportunity Costs, and the Value of Intertemporal Asset Storage

Drexel University Working Paper No. 9906
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 May 1999
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
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Too-Big-To-Fail, Government Bailouts, and Managerial Incentives: The Case of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance to the Railroad Industry During the Great Depression

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Feb 2009
Joseph R. Mason and Daniel Schiffman
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Ariel University - Department of Economics and Business Administration
Downloads 355 (176,984)
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation, RFC, Banking, Railroads, Public Policy

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Business Aggression, Institutional Loans, and Credit Crisis: Evidence from Lending Practices in Leveraged Buyouts

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Apr 2009
Joseph R. Mason, Wei-Ling Song and Jerry Cao
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, Louisiana State University and Independent
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Credit crisis, Leveraged buyouts, bank loans, collateralized loan obligations, private equity

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ETF Corporate Bond Ownership and Market Quality

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Feb 2020
Meredith E. Rhodes and Joseph R. Mason
University of North Texas, Ryan College of Business, Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 313 (202,593)
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Financial Intermediation, Fixed Income Securities, Bonds, Exchange-traded Funds, Information

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance to Financial Intermediaries and Commercial & Industrial Enterprise in the US, 1932-1937

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Feb 2009
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 313 (202,593)
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Great Depression, Crisis, Finance, Banking, Banks, Policy

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Bank Asset Liquidation and the Propagation of the U.S. Great Depression

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Bank Asset Liquidation and the Propagation of the U.S. Great Depression

Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper No. 02-35
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Sep 2002
Joseph R. Mason, James W. Kolari and Ali Anari
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, Texas A&M University - Department of Finance and Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
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Business cycles, persistence, bank failures, liquidation, bankruptcy costs

Bank Asset Liquidation and the Propagation of the U.S. Great Depression

Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 37, August 2005
Posted: 12 Oct 2007
Joseph R. Mason, James W. Kolari and Ali Anari
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, Texas A&M University - Department of Finance and Texas A&M University - Mays Business School

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Business cycles, persistence, bank failures, liquidation, bankruptcy costs

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The Economic Impact of Eliminating Preemption of State Consumer Protection Laws

The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2020
Joseph R. Mason, Robert B. Kulick and Hal J. Singer
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, NERA Economic Consulting and Econ One
Downloads 279 (228,707)

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banking, consumer protection, preemption, subprime mortgage crisis, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, CFPA

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Deriving Credit Portfolio Diversification Properties from Large Asset-Backed Security Pools

Wharton Financial Institutions Working Paper No. 05-43
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 23 Dec 2005
Joseph R. Mason and Eric James Higgins
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Kansas State University - College of Business Administration
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The Summer of ‘07 and the Shortcomings of Financial Innovation

Journal of Applied Finance (Formerly Financial Practice and Education), Vol. 18, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 207 (306,483)

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How to Restructure Failed Banking Systems: Lessons from the U.S. In the 1930's and Japan in the 1990's

NBER Working Paper No. w9624
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
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Resolving the Puzzle of the Underissuance of National Bank Notes

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Resolving the Puzzle of the Underissuance of National Bank Notes

FRB Philadelphia Working Paper No. 05-19
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Oct 2005
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 109 (526,261)
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Resolving the Puzzle of the Underissuance of National Bank Notes

NBER Working Paper No. w10951
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 68 (708,152)
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The Economics of the Proposed Mortgage Servicer Settlement

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 May 2011
Charles W. Calomiris, Eric James Higgins and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Kansas State University - College of Business Administration and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 169 (368,368)
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Causes of U.S. Bank Distress During the Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w7919
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 28 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
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Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach

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Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2011-002A
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 10 Jan 2011
Charles W. Calomiris, Joseph R. Mason and David C. Wheelock
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Research Division
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reserve requirements, reserve demand, excess reserves, money multiplier

Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w16688
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Charles W. Calomiris, Joseph R. Mason and David C. Wheelock
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Research Division
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The Recent History of Syndicated Loan Markets

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Apr 2024
Joseph R. Mason and Todd Goldwasser
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Tegonomix
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Syndicated Loans, Financial Stability, Financial Development, Securities Law

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Self-Reporting Under SEC Reg AB and Transparency in Securitization: Evidence from Loan-Level Disclosure of Risk Factors in RMBS Deals

The Journal of Risk Finance, 2014, Volume 15(4): pp. 334-384
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2016
Joseph R. Mason, Michael B. Imerman and Hong Lee
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business and Wright State University
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Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic

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Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic

NBER Working Paper No. w4934
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2022
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 132 (452,794)
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Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: The June 1932 Chicago Banking Panic

American Economic Review, December 1997
Posted: 09 Mar 1998
Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason
Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business

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Mortgage Appraisal Quality, Risk Layering, and Loan Performance

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2021
Hong Lee, James E. Larsen and Joseph R. Mason
Wright State University, Wright State University and Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business
Downloads 115 (502,071)

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appraisal, Benford’s Law, cluster analysis, cognitive reference theory, financial crisis, machine learning, mortgage default, numeric distribution theory, risk layering

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Price Discovery in the Residential Mortgage-backed Security, Credit Default Swap, and ABX Markets

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2020
Michael B. Imerman, Joseph R. Mason, Rajesh Narayanan and Meredith E. Rhodes
University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business, Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, Louisiana State University and University of North Texas, Ryan College of Business, Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law
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Mortgage-backed Securities; Credit Default Swaps, Index Securities, Price Discovery, Information Efficiency, Credit Crisis

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The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan's Banks' Survival in the 1930s

NBER Working Paper No. w18427
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 29 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Charles W. Calomiris, Joseph R. Mason, Marc Weidenmier and Katherine Bobroff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business, Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Asset-Backed Securities Downgrades as Evidence of Skin in the Game prior to the Mortgage Crisis

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2020
Eric James Higgins, Joseph R. Mason and Adi Mordel
Kansas State University - College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Drexel University - Bennett S. LeBow College of Business
Downloads 46 (837,249)
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Rating agencies, Asset-baked, Securitization, Market discipline

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Rational Divestiture in Real Options-based Liquidation Cycles: Evidence from Failed Bank Assets in the Great Depression

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 May 2024
Joseph R. Mason and Charles W. Calomiris
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 29 (993,396)

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Bank Failure, Business Cycle, Procyclicality, Great Depression, Banking, Monetary Policy

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The Summer of '07 and the Shortcomings of Financial Innovation

Journal of Applied Finance (Formerly Financial Practice and Education), Vol. 18, No. 1, 2008
Posted: 23 Apr 2009
Joseph R. Mason
Louisiana State University - Ourso School of Business

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subprime crisis, financial innovation

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation, lender of last resort, central bank policy