This paper analyses whether there has been an increase in the degree of financial market integration during the nineties. To do this, we focus on stock markets and compute, first, a number of standard measures of co-movements that sometimes are interpreted as measures of financial integration....

This paper analyses the behaviour of real interest rates in the Spanish economy over the last 15 years. Since inflation-indexed-bonds are not available, changes in implicit real interest rates are estimated using several approaches suggested by macroeconomic and financial theory. In particular,...

This paper analyses the behaviour of credit default swaps (CDS) for a sample of firms and finds support for the theoretical equivalence of CDS prices and credit spreads. When this is violated, the CDS price can be viewed as an upper bound on the price of credit risk, while the spread provides a...

This paper analyses the contribution of interest rates to explain recent house price developments in Spain trying to reconcile different pieces of evidence. On the one hand, empirical evidence supports the view that interest rates are a key variable to explain house price developments. As a...

This paper analyses recent key developments in euro-area government bond markets and their main implications for central banks and for market functioning. The introduction of the euro is found to have significantly affected the relative pricing of securities. The spreads over German bonds of...

In this paper we present the estimation results of a dynamic panel data model that explains the dynamic behaviour of default ratios in Spain for loans extended to the household sector. We estimate the models for two alternative definitions of default and for two different loan categories. The...

Artículo de revista ; El objetivo del trabajo es analizar la existencia de primas de liquidez en la valoracion relativa de los bonos negociados en el mercado español de deuda publica. Para ello, en primer lugar, se caracteriza la liquidez relativa de los activos negociados en este mercado, con...

Los bonos indiciados a la inflacion son activos financieros de renta fija cuyos flujos de pagos nominales dependen de la evolucion de un indice de precios. En paises donde existen estos activos, las expectativas de inflacion son a veces estimadas como el diferencial entre la rentabilidad...