We propose a simple method for measuring systemic sovereign credit risk in the Eurozone by linking sovereign defaults … risk for nine countries in the core and peripheral Eurozone between May 2010 and January 2014. We find that the prevailing …

We quantify spillovers of inflation expectations between the United States (US) and Euro Area (EA) based on break …-even inflation (BEI) rates. In contrast to previous studies, we model US and EA BEI rates jointly in a structural vector … autoregressive (SVAR) model. The SVAR approach allows to identify US and EA specific inflation expectations shocks. By modeling the …