This paper investigates the ex-ante determinants of bank loan securitization by using different econometric methods on … Italian individual bank data from 2000 to 2006. Our results show that bank loan securitization is a composite decision. Banks … securitization, for a larger amount and earlier. …

Europe. Information on over a million mortgages consists of loan-level variables, characteristics of the originating bank and …, most importantly, contractual features of the securitization deal, including the seniority structure of the ABSs issued by … suggests that banks can effectively counter the negative effects of asymmetric information in the securitization market by …

may have contributed to the financial crisis by creating some of the raw materials for the securitization industry. Second … securitization process, which played a key role in the outbreak of the financial crisis, was accompanied by opportunities for tax …

securitization markets is relatively ineffective. …