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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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Is the corporate bond market forward looking?

Hilscher, Jens - 2007

This paper presents empirical evidence that the corporate bond market is forward looking with respect to volatility. I use the Merton (1974) model to calculate a measure of implied volatility from corporate bond yield spreads. I find that corporate bond transaction prices contain substantial...

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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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An empirical study on the decoupling movements between corporate bond and CDS spreads

Alexopoulou, Ioana; Andersson, Magnus; Georgescu, Oana Maria - 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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156973

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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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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Credit Spreads, Economic Activity and Fragmentation

De Santis, Roberto A. - 2016

Credit spreads may be jointly driven by developments that are orthogonal to the current state of the economy. We show that this unobserved systematic component is demanded to hedge against adverse economic fluctuations. Using either yield-to-maturity spreads or asset swap spreads for 2345...

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