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coefficients, we find that positive skewness generally exerts a dominant influence. Employing Panel Cointegration Techniques, we … show that greater skewness is associated with higher sovereign bond yields and higher short-term interest rates, whether … measured in face or market value. In contrast, an increase in debt concentration tends to reduce both sovereign bond yields and …
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Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and … government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for the official outbreak of the war and the loss and gain of national … sovereignty. Other events to which historians attach great importance are not reflected in bond prices: The most prominent example …
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This note examines the stochastic behaviour of US monthly 10-year government bond yields. Specifically, it estimates a …-August 2020, the other from the ECB reporting average monthly values over the period January 1900-August 2020. The estimation …
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This paper investigates the informational efficiency of green bond markets using a recently introduced quantitative … inefficiency of the green bond market is generally found to be very similar to that of benchmark bond markets such as treasury bond … green bond markets are very similar to those in the benchmark bond markets. In other words, fundamental factors that drive …
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This project analyzes how a principal can motivate an agent to conserve rather than exploit a depletable resource. This dynamic problem is relevant for tropical deforestation as well as for other environmental problems. It is shown that the smaller is the agent's discount factor (e.g., because...
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interest rate anomaly results from systemic risk anticipation, we discuss whether Switzerland remains an interest rate island …
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is argued that in a cointegration framework it is reasonable to define hysteresis as the absence of weak exogeneity of …
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This paper estimates the preference scores of CoCo bond buyers and sellers by running logistic regressions taking into … account both bond and issuing bank's characteristics, and also considers the role of country−specific CoCo bond market … competitiveness. Buyers are found to be characterised by stronger preference responses to CoCo bond coupons and credit ratings, while …
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little evidence for them. We argue that this outcome could be due to episodic failure of cointegration, possible two …
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Long-run restrictions have been used extensively for identifying structural shocks in vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis. Such restrictions are typically just-identifying but can be checked by utilizing changes in volatility. This paper reviews and contrasts the volatility models that have...
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