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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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Bid-to-cover and yield changes around public debt auctions in the euro area

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo; Hanson, Jesper; … - 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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Has the new bail-in framework increased the yield spread between subordinated and senior bonds?

Pablos Nuevo, Irene - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of the introduction and implementation of the new EU bail-in framework on the banks subordinated bond yield spreads over senior unsecured bonds, and links the bond yields developments with the characteristics of the issuing entities and the economic and...

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High frequency trading and fragility

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2017

We show that limited dealer participation in the market, coupled with an informational friction resulting from high frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity...

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Outages in sovereign bond markets

Kerssenfischer, Mark; Helmus, Caspar - 2024

We use outages as natural experiments to study sovereign bond market functioning. When the euro area futures market goes down, trading activity on the cash market declines, liquidity evaporates, and transaction prices deviate from fundamental values. Tracing back this macro-level market...

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It's not time to make a change : sovereign fragility and the corporate credit risk

Fornari, Fabio; Zaghini, Andrea - 2022

Relying on a perspective borrowed from monetary policy announcements and introducing an econometric twist in the traditional event study analysis, we document the existence of an "event risk transfer", namely a significant credit risk transmission from the sovereign to the corporate sector after...

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Central bank asset purchases and auction cycles revisited : new evidence from the euro area

Ferrara, Federico M. - 2024

This study provides new evidence on the relationship between unconventional monetary policy and auction cycles in the euro area. Using proprietary data on purchases of public sector securities implemented by the Eurosystem, the paper examines the flow effects of asset purchase programmes on...

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Collateral booms and information depletion

Asriyan, Vladimir; Laeven, Luc; Martin, Alberto - 2019

We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … themselves from such diversion in two ways: collateralization and costly screening, which generates durable information about … accumulates physical capital but depletes information about investment projects. As a result, collateral-driven booms end in deep …

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Combining negative rates, forward guidance and asset purchases : identification and impacts of the ECB's unconventional policies

Rostagno, Massimo; Altavilla, Carlo; Carboni, Giacomo; … - 2021

This paper provides new empirical evidence that bears on the efficacy of unconventional monetary policies when the main policy rate is negative. When a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is deployed in concert with rate forward guidance (FG) and quantitative easing (QE), the identification of...

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Taking stock

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of US monetary policy on stock markets. We find that, on average, a tightening of 50 basis points reduces returns by about 3%. Moreover, returns react more strongly when no change had been expected, when there is a directional change in the monetary policy stance...

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