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A safe asset is of high credit quality, retains its value in bad times, and is traded in liquid markets. We show that bonds issued by the European Union (EU) are widely considered to be of high credit quality, and that their yield spread over German Bunds remained contained during the 2020...
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bond market. We exploit these policy changes using a difference-in-differences strategy, with ineligible corporate green …
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The sovereign's intention to issue inflation-linked bonds (ILB) is to save money. More than 15 years' experience with this financial instrument in the United States and in several other countries has led to the conclusion that these bonds are costly and basically characterized by low liquidity...
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This paper econometrically models the dynamics of Swedish government bond (SGB) yields. It examines whether the short … reaffirm John Maynard Keynes's view that the central bank's monetary policy affects long-term government bond yields through … with empirical patterns discerned in previous studies related to government bond yields in both advanced countries and …
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to understand the linkage between the cheapest to deliver bond and closest futures pairs by using high-frequency data on …
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between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. We use a two-step empirical approach. First, we apply … bond markets in the euro area over the period January 1999 to July 2016. Second, we estimate the impact of ECB policy … interventions on the time-varying risk factor sensitivities of spreads. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime …
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between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond …
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We study determinants of sovereign portfolios of Spanish banks over a long time-span, starting in 2008. Our findings challenge the view that banks engaged in moral hazard strategies to exploit the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures. In particular, we show that being a weakly capitalized...
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government debt raises sovereign risk and in turn generates potential bank losses via their (sovereign) bond holdings. Hence, an … bias in banks sovereign bond holdings by reducing excessive exposure to domestic sovereigns has only limited benefit in …
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can it be corrected? The cause of the instability in euro area government bond markets can be traced to a discretionary …
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