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This paper analyses the determinants of euro area non-financial corporate bonds since the early 2000s, so as to gauge deviations from the law of one price. We decompose the spread between the yield of German, French, Italian and Spanish corporate bonds vis-à-vis the German Bund of similar...
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credit default swaps (CDS) to determine whether they are useful tools for the measurement of the sovereign risk either … 2008-2016. By applying the causality Granger test for these variables, after six different ways of proxy, CDS premia are … other cases. So the CDS market contains clear and highly useful information on the sovereign risk. …
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In this paper, we propose a model of the joint dynamics of euro-area sovereign yield curves. The arbitrage-free valuation framework involves five factors and two regimes, one of the latter being interpreted as a crisis regime. These common factors and regimes explain most of the fluctuations in...
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the empirical evidence on European sovereigns CDS spreads and estimate an econometric model where a crucial role is played … by time varying parameters. We model CDS spread changes at country level as reflecting three different factors: a Global …
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We find that deviations from the covered interest rate parity condition (CIP) imply large, persistent, and systematic arbitrage opportunities in one of the largest asset markets in the world. Contrary to the common view, these deviations for major currencies are not explained away by credit risk...
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Foreign holdings of sovereign debt in emerging markets (EMs) shift from foreign currency (FC) to local currency (LC), especially after the global financial crisis. We show that such a dissipation of original sin enlarges deviations from covered interest rate parity (CIP) in EMs, as FC debt is...
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This study tests for a break in the persistence of EMU government bond yield spreads examining data from France, Italy and Spain and using German interest rates as a kind of benchmark. The results reported here provide evidence for breaks between 2006 and 2008. The persistence of the yield...
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Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders on the announcement date of changes in a firm's credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on US capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these investigations, we...
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helped banks directly or whether banks were actually helped by the reduction in sovereign CDS spreads …
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We build a non-stationary Hawkes model of sovereign credit risk for seven European countries, and estimate it on CDS …
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