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We analyze the time-varying nature of the price discovery process in the sovereign debt market over the sample period January 2006 – September 2015. In particular, we test whether the cointegration relationship that should tie bond and CDS spreads together holds over the entire sample. In...
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After the Lehman-Brothers collapse, the stock index has exceeded its pre-Lehman-Brothers peak by 36% in real terms. Seemingly, markets have been demanding more stocks instead of bonds. Yet, instead of observing higher bond rates, paradoxically, bond rates have been persistently negative after...
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In this study, we analyze the effects of sovereign credit rating reviews on national stock market performances in GIIPS and BRIC countries during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis of 2009-2013. Through an event study, we test the Null Hypothesis that cumulative abnormal returns on national...
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the level of policy rates at the time of the news release, and risk conditions: Government bond yields increase in … response to good news, but less so when risk is elevated. Risk conditions matter since they can capture the effects of … objectives of central banks, and the effect of news announcements on the risk premium. …
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the level of policy rates at the time of the news release, and risk conditions: Government bond yields increase in … response to "good news," but less so when risk is elevated. Risk conditions matter since they can capture the effects of … objectives of central banks, and the effect of news announcements on the risk premium. …
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We study how monetary policy and risk shocks affect asset prices in the US, the euro area, and Japan, differentiating …. Communication shocks from the US spill over to risk in the euro area and vice versa, but traditional US shocks show no spillover … effects to risk. Both monetary policy and communication shocks spill over to stocks, with euro area information spillovers …
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components: political risk and economic policy risk. We uncover the surprisingly low correlation between the two variables, and … utmost relevance of political risk, which explains and predicts returns driven by both short-term and long-run correlations …
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mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … is highly integrated. Introducing a new World Fear index, we find that local and global aggregate market returns are …
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Assessments of investors’ risk appetite/aversion stance via indicators often yields results which seem unsatisfactory … improvements. The present paper seeks to contribute to this evolution, focusing on the “Global Risk Appetite Index” (GRAI) class of … version of the factor-transformation extension proposed by Misina (2006). -- Risk appetite indicators ; risk aversion …
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