This work describes the legal structuring of a mortgage covered bond in accordance withthe regulations of paragraphs 791 cont. and 1184 cont. German Civil Code (BürgerlichesGesetzbuch). The work shows how to structure the share of common rights of the bondholders according to the regulations of...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic relationships between some key variables for the euro area by means of a systems approach (i.e. so-called Vector Autoregression) and to simulate their responses with respect to monetary policy shocks. The main result is that rather simple...

This paper tackles the issue of the incompleteness of information available to thecentral bank when taking its monetary policy decisions. It is focused on euro areadata and based on the simplistic assumption of the central bank following a simplemonetary policy rule à-la-Taylor. Along the lines...