This paper reviews the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market, with a particular emphasis on agency residential MBS in the United States. We discuss the institutional environment, security design, MBS risks and asset pricing, and the economic effects of mortgage securitization. We also assemble...

This paper reviews the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market, with a particular emphasis on agency residential MBS in the United States. We discuss the institutional environment, security design, MBS risks and asset pricing, and the economic effects of mortgage securitization. We also assemble...

As the Global Financial Crisis spread, liquidity strains appeared in Norwegian money markets, limiting banks from accessing high-quality and long-term financing. In response, on October 24, 2008, the Norwegian government authorized a Norwegian krone (NOK) 350 billion (USD 50 billion) covered...

We use administrative and supervisory data at the bank and loan level to investigate the impact of the introduction of covered bonds on the composition of bank balance sheets and bank risk. Covered bonds, despite being collateralized by mortgages, lead to a shift in bank lending from mortgages...

Theories suggest that asset encumbrance, the ring-fencing of certain assets for protected debtholders, can affect banks’ risk taking and lead to funding instability. We test these hypotheses using a unique, hand-collected dataset on outstanding covered bonds issued by a sample of listed...

Regulations for securitization have been subject to wide-spread criticism continuously. Before the global financial crisis, they were blamed for creating perverse incentives for banks and after the crisis, they are blamed for punitive treatment to the securitization market. Covered Bonds share...

We use administrative and supervisory data at the bank and loan level to investigate the impact of the introduction of covered bonds on the composition of bank balance sheets and bank risk. Covered bonds, despite being collateralized by mortgages, lead to a shift in bank lending from mortgages...

This paper proposes a set of indicators relevant for the risk characteristics of covered bonds, as based on granular publicly available transparency data. The indicators capture various aspects of cash flow risks related to the issuer, the cover pool and the payment structure. They offer unified...

This study compares credit spreads and the pricing of securitization and covered bonds. Using a sample of 18,309 bonds issued by European banks in the 2000-2016 period, we find that asset-backed securities (ABS), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), public covered bonds (PCB), and mortgage covered...

The discussion on the necessity of a larger volume of very highly quality liquid assets (VHQLA) in the euro area has been very extensive. The debate on expanding the pool of comparable euro area assets focuses on "safe assets", often on various combinations of government bonds, most of which...

This paper proposes a set of indicators relevant for the risk characteristics of covered bonds, as based on granular publicly available transparency data. The indicators capture various aspects of cash flow risks related to the issuer, the cover pool and the payment structure. They offer unified...

This paper empirically investigates the relationship of securitization and covered bonds with bank stability and highlights that this relation varies with the level of a bank's involvement in a specific instrument. The study uses the data from 46 securitizing and covered bond issuing listed...

Like the United States, Denmark relies heavily on capital markets for funding residential mortgages, and the Danish covered bond market bears a number of similarities to U.S. agency securitization. In this paper we describe the key features of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and...

The purpose of this paper is to test whether tensions in the sovereign of the 5 largest euro area Member States had an impact on the funding sources of the most relevant banks based in these Member States and more specically, on the issuance of covered bonds. This could constitute additional...

Like the United States, Denmark relies heavily on capital markets for funding residential mortgages, and the Danish covered bond market bears a number of similarities to U.S. agency securitization. In this paper we describe the key features of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and...

Holger Markmann studies covered bonds and their market behaviour upon the announcement and implementation of outright covered bond purchases by the eurosystem. After introducing the covered bond market, its reaction to the global financial crisis, and the functionality of unconventional monetary...

Asset-backed securities (ABSs) and covered bonds (CBs) are structured finance instruments that require a range of key services, which may be provided by many firms. However, despite the prevalence of structured finance instruments in Europe, the network between issuers and service providers has...

This study empirically investigates the effects of securitisation and covered bonds on credit risk-taking behaviour of banks using data of 253 banks from 7 European countries for the period 2000-2014. The study uses the covariate balancing propensity score with difference-in-difference for the...

This study analyses the most important regulations for asset-backed securities and covered bonds devised after the global financial crisis in Europe. The study presents three perspectives of these regulations. It discusses the premises and context of these regulations and highlights the...

Since the mid-90s and especially since 2007, there has been a tremendous revival of “Covered Bonds” in Europe, partly fostered by the financial crisis, because Covered Bonds proved to be a reliable funding source during the financial crisis. Long-term Covered bonds are complementary...

Covered bonds are a specific example of senior secured debt. If the issuer of the bonds defaults the proceeds of the assets in the cover pool are used for their debt service. If in this situation the cover pool proceeds do not suffice for the debt service, the creditors of the bonds have...

Covered bonds and mortgage-backed securities both allow mortgages to be financed with duration-matched bonds. Given the problems in the MBS market during the financial crisis, some suggest that CB might be a substitute for MBS. We examine the use of CB and MBS in the U.S. and Europe, finding...

Korean household debt, which has been trending conspicuously higher since 2005, has become biased towards falling asset prices. Total household debt, which topped KRW900 trillion in 2011, and a back-loaded debt repayment structure portend a fall in collateral when mindful of Korea's economic...

This study shows how primary market supply influences the secondary market liquidity of outstanding bonds. Liquidity is higher around new bond issuance by the same issuer and in the same maturity segment. It rises once the new issue is priced and remains elevated for several days. The effect is...

This paper tries to explain different nature of the dynamics during the upward and downward part of the last house price cycle in Spain. Covered bonds are introduced as an instrument which may accelerate a house price boom, while it may also serve as a source of correction to overvalued house...