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By using an existing and a new convergence measure, this paper assesses whether bank loan and bond interest rates are converging for the non-financial corporate sector across the euro area. Whilst we find evidence for complete bond market integration, the market for bank loans remains segmented,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951784
We introduce Longitudinal Factor Analysis (LFA) to extract the Common Risk Free (CRF) rate from a sample of sovereign bonds of countries in a monetary union. Since LFA exploits the typically very large longitudinal dimension of bond data, it performs better than traditional factor analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939325
By using an existing and a new convergence measure, this paper assesses whether bank loan and bond interest rates are converging for the non-financial corporate sector across the euro area. Whilst we find evidence for complete bond market integration, the market for bank loans remains segmented,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939455
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By using an existing and a new convergence measure, this paper assesses whether bank loan and bond interest rates are converging for the corporate sector across the euro area. Our sample of 828 bond issues suggests that integration of the primary euro-denominated bond market is complete; there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156797
We introduce Longitudinal Factor Analysis (LFA) to extract the Common Risk Free (CRF)rate from a sample of sovereign bonds of countries in a monetary union. Since LFA exploits the typically very large longitudinal dimension of bond data, it performs better than traditional factor analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673302