Since the onset of the global financial crisis, the sovereign risk premium differential and associated government bond yields have been widening so much as to cause the Eurozone crisis. The stylized facts of the 10-year Greek government bond yield attract much interest since there are deepened...

In this paper we try to uncover the determinants of the 10-year Greek bond yield in both pre- and post-crisis period that caused the unprecedented event, in the recent history, a country, member of the Euro area, not to able to tap the market. In doing so, we employ two major set of variables,...