Securitization of mortgage loans involves multiple financial intermediaries. Among them, loan originators, deal sponsors, and security underwriters are the key economic players. Using data on non-agency mortgage-backed securities, we find that i) deals in which underwriters and sponsors are affiliated (vertically integrated) have higher delinquency rates than those in which they are unaffiliate...

In this paper, we propose a method for dynamic integration of TV-program content and related web content and demonstrate our prototype system called WebTelop . The primary source of information in WebTelop is the TV-program content. Web pages related to the TV-program content are retrieved automatically in real time and are used to augment the TV-program content in the form of captions. Our met...

This research project looks at professional football sponsorship from three different perspectives: the clubs' perspective (sponsorship as an income stream for professional football clubs), the sponsors' perspective (sponsorship as a marketing tool for companies), and a joint perspective (sponsorship as an inter-organisational relationship between professional football clubs and their sponsors)...

This paper discusses (a) the design and (b) the development of easy to use interactive TV applications. (a) Because of the specifics of interaction design for interactive TV applications specific design guidance for interactive TV is needed. This paper investigates how the design of interactive TV applications can benefit from existing software usability knowledge as well as from the interactio...

Sponsors of human drug and biologic products subject to an investigational new drug (IND) application are required to distribute expedited safety reports of serious and unexpected suspected adverse reactions to participating investigators and the FDA to assure the protection of human subjects participating in clinical trials. On September 29, 2010, the FDA issued a final rule amending its regul...