According to the waterfall principle of securitizationQuestion 7Answera.... investors with lower seniorityshould receive all their cash flows before the oneswith the higher seniority receive their cash flows.b.... investors with higher seniority are more likelyto be paid later than the ones with lower seniority.c....during the Credit Crisis of 2008/9, assets wereover-rated by the credit rating agencies, in particularthe more senior tranches.d....the mezzanine tranches of ABSS tended to bethe largest ones of these securitized assets.

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