Kontonikas, Alexandros; Arghyrou, Michael G.; Afonso, … - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2012
We use a panel of euro area countries to assess the determinants of long-term sovereign bond yield spreads over the period 1999.01-2010.12. We find that, unlike the period preceding the global financial crisis, European government bond yield spreads are wellexplained by macro- and fiscal...