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This analysis tests the price discovery relationship between sovereign CDS premia and bond yield spreads on the same … verified. Then, we examine whether the non-stationary CDS and bond spreads series are bound by a cointegration relationship … market moves ahead of the bond market in terms of price discovery. These findings are further supported by the Granger …
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This paper develops a simple theory of the supply of index bonds by a firm, and uses that model to examine in some detail possible reasons for the non-existence of privately issued index bonds in the United States. The major elements of the theory involve the trade-off between the tax advantages...
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the...
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Using new data on security-level portfolio holdings by investor type and across countries in the euro area, we study portfolio rebalancing during the European Central Bank's (ECB) purchase programme that started in March 2015. To quantify changes in risk concentration, we estimate the evolution...
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, and the Long-Term Refinancing Operations) on government bond yields. We use a novel Kalman-filter augmented event … rates to understand the channels through which policies reduced sovereign bond yields. On average across Italy, Spain and …
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short-term effects of policy announcements on exchange rates and sovereign bond yields. We find that on average a central … bank's first whatever-it-takes announcement lowers 10-year bond yields by an additional 47 basis points relative to size …
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We analyze the effect of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy on EME sovereign and corporate bond markets by … focusing on two dimensions: the evolution of the structure (size and currency composition) of the bond markets and their … allocations within the bond portfolios of US investors. Global factors, particularly the level of long-term US Treasury yields …
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stylized model to demonstrate that increased bond supply and tightening leverage constraints can explain this change in regime …
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Advanced economies borrowed substantially during the Covid recession to fund their fiscal policy. The Covid recession differed from the Great Recession in that sovereign debt markets remained calm and spreads barely responded. We study the experience of Greece, the most extreme manifestation of...
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We construct credit risk indicators for euro area banks and non-financial corporations. These are the average spreads on the yield of euro area private sector bonds relative to the yield on German federal government securities of matched maturities. The indicators are also constructed at the...
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