.Full publication: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2001995" Weathering Financial Crises: Bond Markets in Asia and the Pacific … bond markets has contributed greatly to this. Stresses in international markets after the failure of Lehman severely tested …

The rise of bond financing in EuropeUsing large panel data of public and private firms, this paper dissects the growth … of bond financing in the Euro Area through the lens of the cross-section of issuers. In recent years, the composition of … bond issuers has shifted, with the entry of many smaller and riskier issuers. New issuers invest and grow, instead of …

This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns … countries. Regarding the volatility spillovers, such spillovers from bond returns to those of stocks are stronger than the other …

, cumulatively, due to low bond yields since the onset of the Euro crisis. In order to determine the contribution of the "flight to … quality" to this sum, we define the flight to quality as a factor which has caused German bond yields and crisis country bond …