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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 …
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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; 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
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ECB interventions in distressed sovereign debt markets : the case of Greek bonds
Trebesch, Christoph; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin - 2018
We study central bank interventions in times of severe distress (mid-2010), using a unique bond-level dataset of ECB purchases of Greek sovereign debt. ECB bond buying had a large impact on the price of short and medium maturity bonds, resulting in a remarkable "twist" of the Greek yield curve....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789289
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Fiscal and monetary policy determinants of the Eurozone crisis and its resolution
Dąbrowski, Marek - 2012
quasi-fiscal rescue operations can undermine this consensus and lead to a disintegration of the Eurozone. There are also … ; Eurozone ; Maastricht Treaty ; European Central Bank ; Euro ; Fiscal union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572988
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The Euro area crisis : politics over economics
Orphanides, Athanasios - 2014
This paper explores the dominant role of politics in decisions made by euro area governments during the crisis. Decisions that appear to have been driven by local political considerations to the detriment of the euro area as a whole are discussed. The domination of politics over economics has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387172
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Regional integration and the euro crisis : problems and solutions
Pessoa, Argentino - 2013
Along time the European Union (EU) has been pointed as the most succeeded example of regional integration. Now, this example has been cruelly shaken by the EZ (Euro Zone) crisis, originating increasing doubts about the integration process. It is evident that the proposed solutions for attacking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515832
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Wirtschaftsethische Überlegungen zur Finanz- und Eurokrise
Dilger, Alexander - 2017
Die Finanz- und Eurokrise sind das gegenwärtig wichtigste wirtschaftliche und wirtschaftspolitische Thema, welches auch wirtschaftswissenschaftlich noch stärker untersucht und diskutiert werden sollte. Etliche Akteure haben zu diesen Krisen beigetragen, darunter auch...
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The power of opinion : more evidence of a GIPS-markup in sovereign ratings during the euro crisis
Nauhaus, Steffen - 2015
the Eurozone crisis in 2009, irrespective of economic and institutional fundamentals. A subsequent analysis of the markup …
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