A multidimensional knapsack model for asset-backed securitization

A multidimensional knapsack model for asset-backed securitization

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Article ID: iaor20031006
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 53
Issue: 8
Start Page Number: 822
End Page Number: 832
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: ,
Keywords: heuristics
Abstract:

Securitization is a financial operation which allows a financial institution to transform financial assets, for instance mortgage assets or lease contracts, into marketable securities. We focus the analysis on a real case of a bank for the leasing. Once the securitization characteristics, such as size and times of the operation, have been defined, the profit for the financial institution – Italease Bank for the Leasing in our case – depends on how the financial assets to use in the securitization are selected. We show that the selection problem can be modelled as a multidimensional knapsack problem (MDKP). Some formal arguments suggest that there may exist a prevailing constraint in the MDKP. Such an idea is used in the design of some simple heuristics which turn out to be very effective.

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