credit risk transfer instrument and to increase performance, while European originators focus on regulatory capital arbitrage … and performance improvement. For German banks securitization seems to be an appropriate funding tool. The proposed … understanding for the motivation to originate securitization products is less discovered. Therefor this paper tries to identify main …

research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed … jump in defaults at the cutoff would imply that securitization led to lax screening. We argue instead that originators … that securitization caused lax screening. We examine loan-level data and find that the evidence is inconsistent with the …

. Recent research has used variation induced by these rules to investigate the connection between securitization and lender … moral hazard problem posed by securitization. …

credit risk transfer instrument and to increase performance, while European originators focus on regulatory capital arbitrage … and performance improvement. For German banks securitization seems to be an appropriate funding tool. The proposed …. -- regulatory arbitrage ; securitization ; subprime crisis ; ABS ; credit risk transfer ; Basel III ; liquidity …

. Recent research has used variation induced by these rules to investigate the connection between securitization and lender … moral hazard problem posed by securitization. …

research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed … jump in defaults at the cutoff would imply that securitization led to lax screening. We argue instead that originators … that securitization caused lax screening. We examine loan-level data and find that the evidence is inconsistent with the …

intermediated through arms-length transactions, such as securitization. This paper documents these trends, explores their causes … structural model to explore whether technological improvements in securitization, shifts in saver preferences away from deposits …, and changes in implicit subsidies and costs of bank activities can explain these shifts. Declines in securitization cost …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational … predatory borrowing and predatory lending. We present the key structural features of a typical subprime securitization, document … performance of mortgage pools over time. Throughout the paper, we draw upon the example of a mortgage pool securitized by New …