1 Introduction -- 2 Towards a European Green Bond Standard: A European initiative to promote sustainable finance -- 3 Member States sovereign green bond issuance and the development of local green bond markets in the EU -- 4 Issuing a green bond – a practical perspective -- 5 Issuing green...

We analyze how global and local factors affect portfolio allocation by euro area investors in emerging markets at the bond-level. First, cross-sectional analysis reveals a strong preference for home (Euro) currency bonds. Second, panel regressions, whether at the bond or aggregate flows level,...

Securitisation is a well-established practice in the global debt capital markets. It refers to the sale of assets, which generate cash flows, from the institution that owns them, to another company that has been specifically set up for the purpose, and the issuing of notes by this second...

In this paper, we show that the comovement of bond yields in the EU before and during the European sovereign debt crisis is frequency-dependent. Using frequency cohesion and wavelet coherence, we demonstrate that the comovement is concentrated mainly at low frequencies. The comovement decreased...