@article{5163,
  abstract     = {{Employing a unique hand-collected sample of 956 credit risk securitization transactions issued by 64 stock-listed
European banks across the EU-13 plus Switzerland over the period from 1997 to 2010, this paper empirically analyzes
the impact of securitization on the issuing banks’ effective tax rates. Our analysis reveals that banks may reduce their
tax expense through securitization via a direct and indirect channel suggesting that tax avoidance may be a further
motive for banks to engage in the securitization business. These baseline findings remain robust under various
robustness checks, especially when implementing structural equation models and controlling for a reverse causality
between the banks’ tax burden and their incentive to securitize. Finally, various sensitivity analyses provide further
important results and implications for tax policies, banking regulation and the ongoing process of revitalizing the
European securitization market.}},
  author       = {{Uhde, André}},
  journal      = {{The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance}},
  keywords     = {{Securitization, Credit risk transfer, Effective tax rates, European banking}},
  pages        = {{411--421}},
  title        = {{{Tax avoidance through securitization}}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.qref.2020.07.008}},
  volume       = {{79}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}