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: | Speranza M.G., Mansini R. |
Keywords: | heuristics |
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.