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Scarcity effects of QE : a transaction-level analysis in the Bund market
Schlepper, Kathi; Riordan, Ryan; Hofer, Heiko; … - 2017
impact on liquidity conditions as measured by bid-ask spreads and inter-dealer order book depth. We further show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632212
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Liquidity provision as a monetary policy tool : the ECB's non-standard measures after the financial crisis
Quint, Dominic; Tristani, Oreste - 2017
area. In a structural VAR, we identify a liquidity shock rooted in the interbank market and use its impulse response … Gertler and Kiyotaki (2010). We highlight two main results. First, an identified liquidity shock causes a sizable and … in 2008–09. Second, the liquidity injected in the market by the ECB played an important role in attenuating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764878
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Selective default expectations
Accominotti, Olivier; Albers, Thilo N. H.; Oosterlinck, Kim - 2023
This paper explores how selective default expectations affect the pricing of sovereign bonds in a historical laboratory: the German default of the 1930s. We analyze yield differentials between identical government bonds traded across various creditor countries before and after bond market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495920
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Sovereign default swap market efficiency and country risk in the eurozone
Gündüz, Yalın; Kaya, Orcun - 2013
sovereign CDSs of 10 eurozone countries to test the evidence of long memory behavior during the financial crisis. Our analysis … eurozone countries by estimating dynamic conditional correlations. -- Credit default swaps ; long memory ; sovereign risk … ; eurozone economies ; FIGARCH ; dynamic conditional correlation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731982
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The (ir)relevance of the nominal lower bound for real yield curve analysis
Schupp, Fabian - 2020
I propose a new term structure model for euro area real and nominal interest rates which explicitly incorporates a time-varying lower bound for nominal interest rates. Results suggest that the lower bound is of importance in structural analyses implying time-varying impulse responses of yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222610
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Germany Spain France Italy
Mandler, Martin; Scharnagl, Michael - 2020
We assess the macroeconomic effects of the Eurosystem's asset purchases on the four largest euro area economies using simulation exercises that combine unconventional monetary policy shocks with a fixed policy rate for the duration of the purchase programme. We identify unconventional monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222564
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Dispelling the shadow of fiscal dominance? : fiscal and monetary announcement effects for euro area sovereign spreads in the corona pandemic
Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Helbig, Samuel; … - 2021 - This version: June 2021
We use event study regressions to compare the impact of EU monetary versus fiscal policy announcements on government bond spreads of ten euro member countries. Our motivation is to evaluate which of the two players - the ECB or the EU fiscal level - has been more crucial for the stabilization of...
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The IMF to the rescue : did the euro area benefit from the fund's experience in crisis fighting?
Dullien, Sebastian; Fritz, Barbara; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2016
The paper analyses how the IMF brought its experience gained in emerging market sovereign debt crises in the troika’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in the 2000s. We examine subsequent changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548057
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Bank use of sovereign CDS in the eurozone crisis : hedging and risk incentives
Acharya, Viral V.; Gündüz, Yalın; Johnson, Tim - 2018
Using a comprehensive dataset from German banks, we document the usage of sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) during the European sovereign debt crisis of 2008-2013. Banks used the sovereign CDS market to extend, rather than hedge, their long exposures to sovereign risk during this period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888333
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Effects of the ECB's communication on government bond spreads
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Neugebauer, Frederik; … - 2023
This paper investigates the financial market effects of the ECB's communication on the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP). Using data for 10 euro area countries, we first analyse the impact of different communication channels such as press releases, ECB blog contributions, speeches and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014330976