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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 …. Overall the cointegration analysis confirms that the two prices should be equal to each other in equilibrium, as theory …
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injections. We apply the framework to European banks vulnerable to sovereign risk in 2010 and 2011 …
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This paper tests several competing models of municipal bond market equilibrium. It analyzes the influence of changes in …
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Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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From a macroeconomic perspective, the short-term interest rate is a policy instrument under the direct control of the central bank. From a finance perspective, long rates are risk-adjusted averages of expected future short rates. Thus, as illustrated by much recent research, a joint...
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foreign real bonds. Bonds matter: in equilibrium, investors structure their bond portfolio to hedge real exchange rate risk … since relative bond returns are strongly correlated with real exchange rate movements. Equity home bias does not arise from … against other sources of risk, conditionally on bond returns. We estimate the optimal equity and bond portfolios implied by …
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When all financial assets have risky returns, the mean-variance portfolio model is potentially subject to two types of …-variance portfolio choice model which is not affected by either type of bliss point …
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We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias (Amador, Werning, and Angeletos 2006). The government chooses mandatory contributions to respective spending/savings accounts, each with a different pre-retirement...
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first present a model of endogenous sovereign debt defaults, where we show that reserve accumulation through the issuance of … confirm this model prediction when taking the theory to the data. These results suggest that attention should be placed on the …
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We review the literature on sovereign debt. We organize our survey around three central questions: (1) Why do sovereign … debtors ever repay their debts? (2) What burdens, in the form of distortions and inefficiencies, does sovereign debt impose … literature has asked whether sovereign debtors tend to borrow too much or too little, and how debt can distort the domestic …
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