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The impact of the euro on financial markets

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Hördahl, Peter; Kadareja, Arjan; … - 2006

, we focus on the asset pricing implications of the euro. Specifically, we use a dynamic no arbitrage term structure model …

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Financial integration of new EU Member States

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Gérard, Bruno; Kadareja, Arjan; … - 2006

This study assesses the degree of financial integration for a selected number of new EU member states between themselves and with the euro zone. Within the framework of a factor model for market returns, we measure integration as the amount of variance explained by the common factor relative to...

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Structural econometric approach to bidding in the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem

Cassola, Nuno; Ewerhart, Christian; Morana, Claudio - 2007

This paper contributes to the existing literature on central bank repoauctions. It is based on a structural econometric approach, whereby the primitives of bidding behavior (individual bid schedules and bid-shading components) are directly estimated. With the estimated parameters we calibrate a...

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The pricing of risk in European credit and corporate bond markets

Berndt, Antje; Obreja, Iulian - 2007

spreads. Using a modified version of the intertemporal capital asset pricing model, we show that default risk premia represent … tails. The pricing implications of this new factor are not limited to credit markets only. We find that this common factor … is priced consistently across a broad spectrum of corporate bond portfolios. In addition, our asset pricing tests also …

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The term structure of euro area break-even inflation rates: the impact of seasonality

Ejsing, Jacob; García, Juan Angel; Werner, Thomas - 2007

This paper provides a toolkit for extracting accurate information about inflation expectations using inflation-linked bonds. First, we show how to estimate term structures of zero-coupon real rates and break-even inflation rates (BEIRs) in the euro area. This improves the analysis of...

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Country and industry equity risk premia in the euro area: an intertemporal approach

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Lo Duca, Marco; Maddaloni, Angela - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the dynamics of equity risk premia in euro area stock markets across country and industry portfolios. We develop and estimate a conditional intertemporal CAPM where returns on aggregate euro area, country and industry portfolios depend on the market risk as...

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What drives returns to euro area housing? Evidence from a dynamic dividend-discount model

Hiebert, Paul; Sydow, Matthias - 2009

We apply a dynamic dividend-discount model to analyse unexpected housing returns in a panel of eight euro area countries which together comprise 90% of euro area GDP. The application of this model allows for a de-composition of house price movements into movements in rent (cash-flow) and...

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Balance Sheet Interlinkages and Macro-Financial Risk Analysis in the Euro Area

Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; Castrén, Olli - 2009

The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counterparty risk exposures and shock transmission processes at the systemic level. We use the euro area financial accounts (flow of funds) data to construct a sector-level network of bilateral balance sheet exposures and...

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What explains the surge in euro area sovereign spreads during the financial crisis of 2007-09?

Attinasi, Maria-Grazia; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - 2009

This paper uses a dynamic panel approach to explain the determinants of widening sovereign bond yield spreads vis-à-vis Germany in selected euro area countries during the period end-July 2007 to end-March 2009, when the financial turmoil developed into a full-blown financial and economic...

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The impact of news and the SMP on realized (co)variances in the eurozone sovereign debt market

Beetsma, Roel; de Jong, Frank; Giuliodori, Massimo; … - 2014

We use realised variances and co-variances based on intraday data from Eurozone sovereign bond market to measure the dependence structure of eurozone sovereign yields. Our analysis focuses on the impact of news, obtained from the Eurointelligence newsflash, on the dependence structure. More news...

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