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Financial Contagion and the European Debt Crisis
Missio, Sebastian - 2013
Since the beginning of 2010, the Euro Area faces a severe sovereign debt crisis, now generally known as the Euro Crisis. While the Euro Crisis has its origin in Greece, problems have now spread to several other European countries as well. Dynamic conditional correlation models (DCC) are...
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The Sovereign Default Problem in the Eurozone : An Insurance-Based Approach
Arnold, Nadjeschda - 2015
This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020584
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‘Whatever It Takes’ to Resolve the European Sovereign Debt Crisis? Bond Pricing Regime Switches and Monetary Policy Effects
Afonso, António - 2017
This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943161
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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis : How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P. - 2015
German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies … the German government pushed during the Eurozone crisis have been informed by the ordoliberal tradition. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021693
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Foreign-Law Bonds : Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?
Chamon, Marcos - 2018
Governments often issue bonds in foreign jurisdictions, which can provide additional legal protection vis-à-vis domestic bonds. This paper studies the effect of this jurisdiction choice on bond prices. We test whether foreign-law bonds trade at a premium compared to domestic-law bonds. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912664
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Resolving Sovereign Debt Crises : The Role of Political Risk
Trebesch, Christoph - 2018
Sovereign defaults are bad news for investors and debtor countries, in particular if a default becomes messy and protracted. Why are some debt crises resolved quickly, in a matter of months, while others take many years to settle? This paper studies the duration of sovereign debt crises based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910995
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Self-Fulfilling Crises in the Eurozone : An Empirical Test
De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
We test the hypothesis that the government bond markets in the Eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self … countries in the Eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt to GDP ratios and fiscal space … argue that this can drive member countries of the Eurozone into bad equilibria. We also find evidence that after years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090949
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Fiscal Spillovers in the Euro Area
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2012
This paper analyses the dynamic effects of fiscal imbalances in a given EMU member state on the borrowing costs of other countries in the euro area. The estimation of a multivariate, multi-country time series model (specifically a Global VAR, or GVAR) using quarterly data for the EMU period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112600
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A Fragile Eurozone in Search of a Better Governance
De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
self-fulfilling multiple equilibria arise.I analyze the implications of this fragility for the governance of the Eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092900
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International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries : Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155428