The paper employs government bond portfolios from 17 countries so as to investigate the short-run reaction of investors to price shocks. The findings indicate a uniform return reversal pattern across countries, that persists irrespective of various robustness tests such as different data-sets...

In this paper we examine the effect of ECB's unconventional monetary policy measures on energy prices. Our results indicate that the non-standard ECB monetary policies during the recent financial crises had a significant and negative impact on energy prices. For example, we find that these...