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Sovereign contagion in Europe : evidence from the CDS market

Manasse, Paolo; Zavalloni, Luca - 2013

This paper addresses the following questions. Is there evidence of financial contagion in the Eurozone? To what extent … matter concerning the Euro Zone. Second, differences in vulnerability to contagion within the Eurozone are even more … remarkable: the core Eurozone members become less vulnerable to EUZ contagion, possibly due to a safe-heaven effect, while …

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The instability of the market for government bonds in the EMU

Kleinert, Jörn - In: German economic review : GER 24 (2023) 2, pp. 207-231

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Bond Risk Premia, Macroeconomic Factors and Financial Crisis in the Euro Area

Garcia, Juan A. - 2015

This paper investigates the power of macroeconomic factors to explain euro area bond risk premia using (i) a big dataset (ii) the Elastic Net variable selection. We find that macroeconomic factors, in particular economic activity and sentiment indicators, explain 40% of the variability of risk...

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Bond Risk Premia, Macroeconomic Factors and Financial Crisis in the Euro Area

Garcia, Juan A. - 2016

This paper investigates the power of macroeconomic factors to explain euro area bond risk premia using (i) a large dataset that captures the nowadays data-rich environment (ii) the Elastic Net variable selection. We find that macroeconomic factors, in particular economic activity and sentiment...

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Financial Stability in Europe : Banking and Sovereign Risk

Bruha, Jan - 2017

We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...

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Europe needs more than a Capital Markets Union : focus on the integration of euro area sovereign debt markets

Breitenfellner, Andreas; Schuberth, Helene - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 86 (2017) 2, pp. 9-20

With a view to establishing a Capital Markets Union (CMU), efforts to integrate (private) capital markets and private risk-sharing in the European Union are underway. However, the single (capital) market will be burdened by a perennial potential threat to sovereign bond market stability in the...

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The rise of bond financing in Europe

Darmouni, Olivier; Papoutsi, Melina - 2022

The rise of bond financing in EuropeUsing large panel data of public and private firms, this paper dissects the growth of bond financing in the Euro Area through the lens of the cross-section of issuers. In recent years, the composition of bond issuers has shifted, with the entry of many smaller...

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Heterogeneous macro and financial effects of ECB asset purchase programs

Zwan, Terri van der; Kole, Erik; Wel, Michel van der - 2021

Central banks resorted to asset purchase programs to replace conventional policy measures, which became ineffective after interest rates approached the zero lower bound. We investigate their effects on financial markets and focus on heterogeneous transmission using a Bayesian structural vector...

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From cash- to securities-driven euro area repo markets : the role of financial stress and safe asset scarcity

Brand, Claus; Ferrante, Lorenzo; Hubert, Antoine - 2019

Focussing on repo specialness premia, using ISIN-specific transaction-by-transaction data of one-day maturity repos, we document a gradual shift from cash- to securities-driven transactions in euro area repo markets over the period 2010-2018. Compared to earlier studies focussing only on...

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The Financial Market Effects of the ECB's Asset Purchase Programs

Lewis, Vivien - 2017

The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...

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