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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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Market discipline, financial integration and fiscal rules: what drives spreads in the euro area government bond market?

Manganelli, Simone; Wolswijk, Guido - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of interest rate spreads of euro area 10 year government bonds against the benchmark, the German bund, after the introduction of the euro. In particular, it pays attention to the question whether market discipline is advanced or obstructed by financial...

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The term structure of risk premia: new evidence from the financial crisis

Berg, Tobias - 2010

This study calibrates the term structure of risk premia before and during the 2007/2008 financial crisis using a new calibration approach based on credit default swaps. The risk premium term structure was flat before the crisis and downward sloping during the crisis. The instantaneous risk...

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Liquidity and Credit Risk Premia in Government Bond Yields

Ejsing, Jacob - 2012

This paper quantifies liquidity and credit premia in German and French government bond yields. For this purpose, we estimate term structures of government-guaranteed agency bonds and exploit the fact that any difference in their yields vis-`a-vis government bonds can be attributed to differences...

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An Empirical Study on the Decoupling Movements between Corporate Bond and CDS Spreads

Alexopoulou, Ioana - 2009

turmoil in the summer of 2007 induced a substantial increase in risk aversion and a shift in the pricing of credit risk, with …

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Risk Characteristics of Covered Bonds : Monitoring Beyond Ratings

Grothe, Magdalena - 2020

This paper proposes a set of indicators relevant for the risk characteristics of covered bonds, as based on granular publicly available transparency data. The indicators capture various aspects of cash flow risks related to the issuer, the cover pool and the payment structure. They offer unified...

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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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Market Perception of Sovereign Credit Risk in the Euro Area During the Financial Crisis

Camba-Mendez, Gonzalo - 2014

use a parsimonious CDS pricing model to estimate the probability of default (PD) and the loss given default (LGD) as …

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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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