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dissipating local risk premiums. Integration of the sovereign bond markets increases by about 10% on average, when a country moves … inflation risk, and lower illiquidity. The 10% increase in integration leads to, on average, a decrease in the sovereign cost of …
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We build an enhanced structural credit risk Merton style model for a risky sovereign having both domestic and foreign …
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The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 crystallized the underlying imbalances that are currently acting to tear apart the Euro area monetary and fiscal systems by focusing markets and public attention on the core cause of the overall Euro crisis, the insolvency of the Euro area member-states...
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sovereign risk factor, a European sovereign risk factor and a Financial intermediaries risk factor. Our main findings are as …
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This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade...
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This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206145
that, while the default premium does not contribute to carry trade strategies, the contribution of interest rate risk …, captured by the term premium, is large and increases with maturity. We introduce default risk in an otherwise standard affine …
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We analyze how concerns for model misspecification on the part of international lenders affect the desirability of issuing state-contingent debt instruments in a standard sovereign default model à la Eaton and Gersovitz (1981). We show that for the commonly used threshold state-contingent bond...
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Since the onset of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, credit risk spreads in Europe have diverged. Despite this … divergence, credit risk comoves strongly within certain country groups such as the eurozone periphery. We seek to answer what the … determinants of the observed pattern of credit risk co-movements are and whether and during which periods sovereign debt markets …
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