finds that common shocks – key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk – have exerted a large effect …, country risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that …

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for a large number of countries within and outside of Europe, before and … determinant of market-based sovereign risk, and find evidence of mispricing in PIIGS given current fiscal space and other current … Europe that, before the crisis (2007), were closest in terms of fiscal space (debt/tax). We find that PIIGS default risk is …

future robustness. -- Contagion ; network models ; systemic risk ; liquidity risk ; financial crises …, and asset market liquidity. Our findings suggest that financial systems exhibit a robust-yet-fragile tendency: while the …