Yet more from the postbag – Leland toft model, covered bonds

A busy day at the Post Office. K9.dogs is still intrigued by our earlier suggestion that the illiquidity premium is only c.5bps. Could we have a blog on that? Indeed, but that will have to wait until next week. Illiquidity premia require patience (unless you are an insurance company).

Max LikeyHood (sic) at maximumlikeyhood@gmail.com asks if we can make our implementation of the Bank’s structural model available. Yes, in the interests of transparency, public disclosure etc, here it is. The usual disclaimers apply – at your own risk, no representation is made etc. There is an additional bonus in that we have included the Basel IRB model at the bottom. Any questions, please ask in the usual way.

And keep up with the weird email addresses!