Next to deposits, European banks have, unlike their US counterparties which heavily rely on securitization to fund mortgages, historically largely used bank obligations such as covered bonds and senior unsecured bonds. We assess the decision of 402 European banks between 2006 and 2014 to issue...

Employing a generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Bayesian procedure we develop a new measure of real estate uncertainty that explicitly encapsulates conditional stochastic volatility and noise. When applied to commercial real estate (CRE) markets, results of Vector Autoregressive (VAR) modeling...