Does securitization distort the foreclosure decisions of non-performing mortgages? In a model of mortgage-backed securitization with an endogenous foreclosure policy, we find that the securitizing bank adopts a tougher foreclosure policy than the first-best, despite resulting in higher loan...

How does securitisation distort the foreclosure decision of non-performing mortgages? In a model in which informed securitisers raise liquidity by jointly designing the mortgage-backed security and the foreclosure policy, the authors find that securitisers optimally adopt an excessive...