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Measuring market and inflation risk premia in France and in Germany

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Guéné, Stéphane - 2005

Capital Asset Pricing Model à la Merton (1973), with inflation as an independent source of risk, for France and Germany. Our … the convergence process towards the single currency might have affected the role of inflation in the pricing of financial … assets. We find that inflation is a significant explanatory factor for the pricing of stocks and government bonds in the two …

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Transparency, disclosure and the federal reserve

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

This paper assesses the change in Federal Reserve policy introduced in 1999, with the publication of statements about the outlook for monetary policy (and later about the balance of risks) immediately after each FOMC meeting. We find that markets anticipated monetary policy decisions equally...

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Bid-to-Cover and Yield Changes Around Public Debt Auctions in the Euro Area

Beetsma, Roel M. W. J. - 2017

Earlier research has shown that euro-area primary public debt markets affect secondary markets. We find that more successful auctions of euro area public debt, as captured by higher bid-to-cover ratios, lead to lower secondary-market yields following the auctions. This effect is stronger when...

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Measuring Bilateral Spillover and Testing Contagion on Sovereign Bond Markets in Europe

Claeys, Peter - 2014

The global financial crisis rapidly spread across borders and financial markets, and also distressed EU bond markets. The crisis did not hit all markets in the same way. We measure the strength and direction of linkages between 16 EU sovereign bond markets using a factor-augmented version of the...

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A High Frequency Assessment of the ECB Securities Markets Programme

Ghysels, Eric - 2014

Policy impact studies often suffer from endogeneity problems. Consider the case of the ECB Securities Markets Programme: If Eurosystem interventions were triggered by sudden and strong price deteriorations, looking at daily price changes may bias downwards the correlation between yields and the...

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Issuance and Valuation of Corporate Bonds with Quantitative Easing

Pegoraro, Stefano; Montagna, Mattia - 2021

After the announcement of the European Central Bank’s corporate quantitative easing program, non-financial corporations timed the bond market by shifting their issuance toward bonds eligible for the program. However, issuers of eligible bonds did not increase total issuance compared to other...

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Trading ahead of Treasury auctions

Sigaux, Jean-David - 2021

I develop and test a model explaining the gradual price decrease observed in the days leading up to anticipated asset sales such as Treasury auctions. In the model, risk-averse investors expect an uncertain increase in the net supply of a risky asset. They face a trade-off between hedging the...

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Boosting Carry with Equilibrium Exchange Rate Estimates

Rubaszek, Michał; Beckmann, Joscha; Ca’ Zorzi, Michele; … - 2022

We build currency portfolios based on the paradigm that exchange rates slowly converge to their equilibrium to highlight three results. First, this property can be exploited to build profitable portfolios. Second, the slow pace of convergence at short-horizons is consistent with the evidence of...

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Effects of Labour and Product Market Regulation on Worker Flows : Evidence for the Euro Area Using Micro Data

Anderton, Robert; Di Lupidio, Benedetta - 2021

Macroeconomic studies suggest that employment-output elasticities in the euro area increased during the recovery from the crisis, especially in those countries that implemented reforms. In this paper, we use micro (individual-level) data from the Eurostat Labour Force Survey to investigate...

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