financial crisis, but had a negligible impact on uncollateralised debt issuance decisions. JEL Classification: G21, G01, G15 …

and after the start of the current financial crisis. The study finds, first, that bond yield spreads before and during the … crisis can largely be explained on the basis of economic principles. Second, markets penalise fiscal imbalances much more …-benchmark bonds due to higher general risk aversion, and German bonds obtained a safe-haven investment status similar to that of the …

From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered … interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis … Taylor rules for our economy that are consistent with a strong pro-inflationary reaction during financial crisis while …

Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …

Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …

crisis since mid-2007. We also find that there is some tendency of the yield movements to be larger when the demand for the … dealers require compensation for inventory risk and this compensation needs to be higher when market uncertainty is larger. We … explanation of yield movements based on the behaviour of primary dealers with limited risk-bearing capacity. JEL Classification: G …

-to-quality effect. Common news about the euro crisis and news about specific countries itself tend to raise the covariance of yields … between distressed countries, indicating potential crisis spillover effects. However, we do not detect spillover effects from … Markets Programme (SMP) mitigate the negative crisis spillovers among the distressed countries and reduce the flight …