characteristics? Based on a common source of balance sheet data for the four largest economies of the euro area over the period 1999 …

process. We identify the impact of (i) joining the European Union and (ii) joining the Euro on cross-border M&As. We show that …

) as well as the special ad-hoc questions on the LTROs conducted in mid-February 2012. We estimate a panel-VAR for the euro …

We study correlations between the risk-free rate and sovereign yields of ten euro area countries using smooth …

Assessing the impact of the Asset Purchase Programme (APP) by the European Central Bank (ECB) on euro area sovereign … market in the second half of 2014. Therefore, to identify the APP for the euro area, we rely upon Bloomberg news on euro area … APP. The econometric results suggest that the impact of APP on euro area long-term sovereign yields is sizeable, albeit …

Using a representative sample of businesses in the euro area, we show that Eurosystempurchases of corporate bonds under …

Since the intensification of the crisis in September 2008, all euro area long-term government bond yields relative to … euro area spreads, including those for Austria, Finland and the Netherlands. Country-specific credit ratings have played a …