We use realised variances and co-variances based on intraday data from Eurozone sovereign bond market to measure the … dependence structure of eurozone sovereign yields. Our analysis focuses on the impact of news, obtained from the Eurointelligence …-to-quality effect. Common news about the euro crisis and news about specific countries itself tend to raise the covariance of yields …

crisis since mid-2007. We also find that there is some tendency of the yield movements to be larger when the demand for the …

thus partly be the result of capital flows from the core of Europe to the periphery prior to the global financial crisis …

From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered … interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis … Taylor rules for our economy that are consistent with a strong pro-inflationary reaction during financial crisis while …

Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …

and after the start of the current financial crisis. The study finds, first, that bond yield spreads before and during the … crisis can largely be explained on the basis of economic principles. Second, markets penalise fiscal imbalances much more … US which they did not have before the crisis. These findings underpin the need for achieving sound fiscal positions in …

Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …