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We use realized variances and covariances based on intraday data from Eurozone sovereign bond market to measure the … dependence structure of eurozone sovereign yields. Our analysis focuses on the impact of news, obtained from the Eurointelligence … and decreases the covariance of distressed countries' yields with German bond yields, suggesting a flight …
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This note critically assesses the Basel reform process of capital regulation. It highlights the political nature of this process and argues that the absence of clearly spelled-out societal objectives has been detrimental in furthering stability and soundness of the banking systems in the run-up...
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The roles of central banks in the advanced economies have expanded and multiplied since the beginning of the crisis. The conventional monetary policy roles - setting interest rates in the pursuit of macroeconomic stability and acting as lender of last resort and market maker of last resort to...
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The sovereign debt default and the linkages from banking and currency crisis have been rarely explored in the crisis literature. This study attempts to dive into this unexplored area by applying panel data binary choice model on a sample with 20 emerging countries having monthly observations for...
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This paper explores the dominant role of politics in decisions made by euro area governments during the crisis. Decisions that appear to have been driven by local political considerations to the detriment of the euro area as a whole are discussed. The domination of politics over economics has...
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sovereign default are contagion and concentration risk, both within and outside the jurisdiction of the sovereign, and ‘rule of …
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creating gains in credibility; (b) there being perceptible risk of a bail out for the highly indebted countries; (c) budgets …
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The paper reviews and evaluates in a non-technical manner the economic and political arguments for and against the two fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), net general...
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the absence of distortionary taxes and induces efficient intergenerational risksharing. If agents are more risk …
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Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be … exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European … nonlinear dynamics. 2) The deterioration of market conditions for financial names changes the way investors price risk of the …
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