This chapter examines the impact the European sovereign debt market crisis had on liquidity and volatility dynamics and their interdependencies in the eurozone government bond market. In particular, we examine the impact across different countries and across different maturity buckets within...

The paper provides a high-frequency analysis of liquidity dynamics in the eurozone sovereign bond market over tranquil and crisis periods. We study time series of liquidity across the yield curve using high-frequency data from MTS, one of Europe's leading electronic fixed-income trading...

Contagion is an elusive concept and several definitions have been used in the literature. According to Forbes and Rigobon (2002) contagion is defined as a significant increase in cross-market linkages after a shock to one country. In this paper we provide a selective literature review on...

Using high-frequency data from the MTS trading platform, we examine return and volatility spillover effects across different maturities in the European sovereign bond market over tranquil and crisis periods. The longer-term benchmark securities of core countries are the largest net volatility...

We investigate information shares in the price discovery process in the euroarea sovereign bond market across the yield curve, during both calm and crisis periods. We employ a rich high-frequency dataset from the MTS platform. We find that price discovery is enhanced, on average, especially for...

This commentary examines the slope of the sovereign bond yield curve before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. The yield curve as a sentiment indicator on the future growth prospects of the euro area is upward sloping, indicating that borrowing money long-term is more expensive than short-term...