Bernoth, Kerstin; Erdogan, Burcu - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012) 3, pp. 639-656
We study the determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads across 10 EMU countries between Q1/1999 and Q1/2010. We apply a semiparametric time-varying coefficient model to identify, to what extent an observed change in the yield spread is due to a shift in macroeconomic fundamentals or due to...