The Role of Mortgage Brokers in the Subprime Crisis

We are grateful for financial support from the McIntire Center for Financial Innovation. We thank Sonny Bringol of Victorian Finance, LLC and Paul Allen of Oakmont Advisors, LLC for helpful discussions about the structure of the mortgage market and Michael Gage of IPRecovery for help with the New Century database. We are grateful to Vijay Bhasin, Bo Becker, Amit Seru, Amir Sufi and seminar participants at Aalto University, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western University, Copenhagen Business School, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Hanken School of Economics, HEC Paris, Insead, SIFR, UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, the NBER Securitization Meeting, the third McGill/IFM2 Risk Management Conference, and the NBER Financial Institutions and Market Risk Conference for useful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.