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Sovereign bond market integration: the euro, trading platforms and globalization

Wolff, Guntram B.; Schulz, Alexander - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2008

We disentangle different driving factors of sovereign bond market integration by studying yield co-movements of EMU … increased gradually in the course of the last 15 years in EMU countries, as well as the UK, the US and the German Länder. The …

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An assessment of the trends in international price competitiveness among EMU countries

Fischer, Christoph - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007

Inflation differentials within European Monetary Union (EMU) are increasingly seen as exerting adverse effects on the … price competitiveness of member countries' firms and – given the common monetary policy within EMU – as being detrimental to … international price competitiveness for EMU countries, the paper analyses whether these indicators have displayed distinctive trends …

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Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence from the Daily DM/US-Dollar Exchange Rate

Reitz, Stefan - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002

In this paper we propose a generalisation of the noise trader transmission mechanism to examine the impact of central bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are supposed to provide support to either chartist or...

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Currency blocs in the 21st century

Fischer, Christoph - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2011

Based on a classification of countries and territories according to their regime and anchor currency choice, the study considers the two major currency blocs of the present world. A nested logit regression suggests that long-term structural economic variables determine a given country's currency...

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Testing for structural breaks in dynamic factor models

Breitung, Jörg; Eickmeier, Sandra - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

From time to time, economies undergo far-reaching structural changes. In this paper we investigate the consequences of structural breaks in the factor loadings for the specification and estimation of factor models based on principal components and suggest test procedures for structural breaks....

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Comovements and heterogeneity in the Comovements and heterogeneity in the dynamic factor model

Eickmeier, Sandra - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006

transmission to individual EMU countries. Our most important findings are the following. EMU countries share five common trends … 1999 on and of inflation in the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. To examine the transmission of common shocks to individual EMU …

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Expected budget deficits and interest rate swap spreads - Evidence for France, Germany and Italy

Heppke-Falk, Kirsten H.; Hüfner, Felix P. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004

This study analyses whether expected budget deficits have an impact on interest rate swap spreads in France, Germany and Italy. We use monthly deficit forecasts from financial market participants to take the forward-looking behaviour of financial markets into account. Results of a SUR estimation...

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Fiscal institutions, fiscal policy and sovereign risk premia

Hallerberg, Mark; Wolff, Guntram B. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006

increase risk premia measured by relative swap spreads. The effect of deficits is significantly lower under EMU. This effect …

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Banking and sovereign risk in the euro area

Gerlach, Stefan; Schulz, Alexander; Wolff, Guntram B. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010

We study the determinants of sovereign bond spreads in the euro area since the introduction of the euro. We show that an aggregate risk factor is a main driver of spreads. This factor also plays an important indirect role for risk spreads through its interaction with the size and structure of...

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The ESRB at 1

Gerlach, Stefan (ed.); Gnan, Ernest (ed.); Ulbrich, Jens (ed.) - Conference on ESRB at 1 <1, 2011, Berlin>; SUERF - The …; … - 2012

SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...

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