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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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From 2010 to 2012, the relation between bank stock returns from European Union (EU) countries and the returns on …
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We develop a theory of information spillovers in sovereign bond markets in which investors can acquire information … primary and secondary market yields, market segmentation, and measures of information acquisition during the Eurozone …
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pressure to currency forward markets and results in violations of the covered interest rate parity. Using trading data and bank …
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt … on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the reliability of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on … Euro Area countries. For comparison we also estimate the fiscal consequences of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England …
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portfolio rebalancing during the European Central Bank's (ECB) purchase programme that started in March 2015. To quantify …
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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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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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This paper investigates the impact of credit rating changes on the sovereign spreads in the European Union and investigates the macro and financial factors that account for the time varying effects of a given credit rating change. We find that changes of ratings are informative, economically...
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We show that Eurozone bank risks during 2007-2012 can be understood as a "carry trade" behavior. Bank equity returns … load positively on peripheral (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, or GIPSI) bond returns and negatively on German … government bond returns, a position that generated "carry" until the deteriorating GIPSI bond returns inflicted losses on banks …
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