We investigate the relationship between media negativity on foreign countries and flows to country-specific international mutual funds in the US. We find that the media negativity together with the media attention given to a foreign country is negatively correlated with the flows to...

Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) securities were introduced by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2013. As of the end of 2017, in combination, the two Government Sponsored housing Enterprises (GSEs) had issued a total of $53 billion in CRTs linked to residential mortgage loans with a total face value of...