Covered bonds are a promising alternative for prime mortgage securitization. In this paper, we explore risk premia in the covered bond market and particularly investigate whether and how credit risk is priced. In extant literature, yield spreads between high-quality covered bonds and government...

Überall auf der Welt sind Banken bereit, für den Erwerb oder den Bau von Häusern und den Erwerb von Grundstücken Kredite zu gewähren. Allerdings haben nicht alle Länder eine spezielle Gesetzgebung geschaffen, die es den Banken erleichtert, derartige Kredite durch die Ausgabe von gesetzlich...

The article discusses the German legislation in relation to mortgage bonds, and also briefly describes the state of European legislation in this regard. There are also themes from other countries in which such mortgage bonds are used. The publication consists of 5 sections, where the first is...