This paper empirically investigates the relationship between TV news coverage and the GIIPS countries’ bond yield … news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries which include 37,859 news on the EU, on the Eurozone and on country …-specific economic issues. We find that an increasing share of news about the Eurozone reduces yield spreads, especially when the news …

particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond …

contrast, banks in the core countries expand their loan portfolios, rather than adjusting their domestic sovereign bond …

ideas: (1) to create multitranche "sovereign bond-backed securities" (SBBS), of which the senior tranche would constitute a … safe asset; (2) to create a senior, publicly owned financial intermediary that would issue a bond backed by a diversified … diversified pool of senior sovereign bonds ("multitranche national bond issuance"). Public attention (including public criticism …

provided to non-financial corporations (NFCs) during the last three decades in four Eurozone countries, namely Germany, France …

European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis … covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I first re-confirm that the crisis led to the reallocation of sovereign …