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Sovereign Contagion in Europe : Evidence from the CDS Market
Manasse, Paolo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088213
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051172
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731038
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Eurozone Sovereign Contagion : Evidence from the CDS Market (2005–2010)
Kalbaska, Alesia - 2017
the Eurozone. The adjusted correlation analysis confirms that Greece and other PIIGS (even Spain and Italy) have lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965163
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Is the ‘Euro Bond’ the Answer to the Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis? What Outcome Can Investors Expect Out of Europe?
Matziorinis, Kenneth N. - 2012
This paper analyzes the causes of the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and examines the policy alternatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111171
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Scarcity effects of QE : a transaction-level analysis in the Bund market
Schlepper, Kathi; Riordan, Ryan; Hofer, Heiko; … - 2017
This paper investigates the scarcity effects of quantitative easing (QE) policies, drawing on intra-day transaction-level data for German government bonds, purchased under the Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP) of the ECB/Eurosystem. This paper is the first to match high-frequency QE purchase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632212
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The Euro Area Periphery Sovereigns' Fiscal Positions and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Hülsewig, Oliver - 2020
We explore the reaction of the euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions to an unconventional monetary policy shock. We estimate panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models over the period 2010-2018, and identify the shock by imposing sign restrictions. Our results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843420
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Quantitative Easing and Sovereign Yield Spreads : Euro-Area Time-Varying Evidence
Afonso, António - 2017
We assess the determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads in the period 1999-2016, considering non-conventional monetary policy measures in the Euro area. We use a 2-step approach: i) confirm (by means of model selection methods) and estimate (by means of panel techniques) the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941802
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The Euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions and unconventional monetary policy
Hülsewig, Oliver; Scharler, Johann - 2020
We explore the reaction of the euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions to an unconventional monetary policy shock. We estimate panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models over the period 2010-2018, and identify the shock by imposing sign restrictions. Our results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154910
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ECB interventions in distressed sovereign debt markets : the case of Greek bonds
Trebesch, Christoph; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin - 2014
This paper analyses the determinants and effects of ECB interventions in times of severe distress. We focus on the Greek government bond market in mid-2010 and use a unique new dataset to show, for the first time, what type of bonds the ECB bought. We then explore the short-term effects of ECB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337515