. 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 …

performance. Nevertheless, the effect of residential mortgage loans securitization on bank risk appeared to be negative after the … crisis, indicating that the securitization of this type of credit can reduce the bank risk in the detriment of a lower profit …