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We decompose euro area sovereign bond yields into five distinct components: i) expected future short-term risk-free rates and a term premium, ii) default risk premium, iii) redenomination risk premium, iv) liquidity risk premium, and a v) segmentation (convenience) premium. Iden- tification is...
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holdings by banks to eurozone membership and inflation increased significantly since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Since the …
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In this paper, we use detailed data on the sovereign debt holdings of all German banks to analyse the determinants of sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First, sovereign bond holdings are heterogeneous across...
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This paper analyses leading indicator properties of a broad set of credit spreads, compiled on the basis of information from both corporate bonds and bank loans for forecasting of real activity, unemployment, inflation and lending volumes in the euro area and in five major European economies. It...
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This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that …
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-performing loans (NPLs) on bank cost of capital, credit and liquidity creation in the Eurozone. Empirical results confirm the model …
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This paper documents how sovereign debt ratings shape euro area cross-border holdings of euro area sovereign debt, using granular sectoral security holdings statistics for the period 2009Q4 until 2016Q1. Credit risk is the main risk for bond investors when investing in bonds that are issued in...
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At the end of 2009, countries in the Eurozone began to experience a sudden divergence of bond yields as the perceived … sovereign credit default swap (CDS) market and the liquidity of the sovereign bond market for a group of Eurozone countries …. Empirically, we consider the differential spread on various Eurozone members sovereign bonds over the equivalent German benchmark …
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At the end of 2009, countries in the Eurozone began to experience a sudden divergence of bond yields as the market …
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