We build a market equilibrium model of loan securitization as an alternative explanation of the cause of the recent … Financial Crisis where there was initially deteriorating loan quality but coupled with aggressive securitization, and later … information (in)accuracy. We show that securitization enhances banks' optimism in the loan market, and being optimistic is …

. 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 …

We address the moral hazard problem of securitization using a principal-agent model where the investor is the principal … and the lender is the agent. Our model considers structured asset-backed securitization with a credit enhancement …

This paper aims at discussing the role of securitization in the 2008 crisis and how it links to the Austrian Business … Cycle Theory (ABCT). The argument that securitization is behind the scriptural credit creation during the boom preceding the … 2008 crisis is incomplete. It shall be demonstrated by means of consolidated balance sheet analysis that securitization per …

the moral hazard effect of securitization on underwriting. This research design is premised on the assumption that these … cutoff rules are a response by lenders to securitization rules of thumb. We reexamine the evidence and find it is … cutoff rules in underwriting, one cannot use these same cutoff rules to learn about the effect of securitization on …

’s interventions during different stages of the crisis in terms of this literature. We interpret the Fed’s early-stage liquidity … periods of high liquidity risk. In contrast, reductions in the Fed’s liquidity supply in 2009 did not increase the spread. Our … analysis has implications for the impact on asset prices of a potential withdrawal of liquidity supply by the Fed. -- Financial …

's interventions during different stages of the crisis in light of this literature. We interpret the Fed's early-stage liquidity … empirical evidence that increases in the Federal Reserve's liquidity supply reduce interest rates during periods of high … liquidity risk. Our analysis has implications for the impact on market prices of a potential withdrawal of liquidity supply by …