The focus of this contribution is on financial stability and the extent to which proposed regulatory frameworks deal effectively to avoid financial instability. While microprudential financial stability has been in place prior to and since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), macroprudential...

This paper examines the spillover effects of sovereign rating news on European financial markets during the period 2007-2010. Our main finding is that sovereign rating downgrades have statistically and economically significant spillover effects both across countries and financial markets. The...