Reserve portfolios prior to the Global Financial Crisis provided positive (low) returns for central banks or had extremely low probabilities of earning negative returns. In the wake of the crisis, expansionary monetary policy created a low yield environment at a scale that was never seen before....

Budapest, the capital of Hungary, has experienced a two-year growth rate of 50% in housing prices (Q2 2014 – Q2 2016). This increase has been significantly higher than in the rest of Hungary, but calculations show that houses are not yet overvalued in any region of the country. Still, the...