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This paper analyses the effects of newspaper coverage of macro news on the spread between the yield on the 10-year German Bund and on sovereign bonds in eight countries belonging to the euro area (Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) using daily data for...
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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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green bond returns and volatilities. On the whole, the evidence suggests weaker linkages, and thus a lower degree of …
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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 paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the …
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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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Were government bond risk premia affected by the media in addition to the effects of major events? Revisiting the … European debt crisis, we analyze the role of television news in the rise and re-convergence of GIIPS bond spreads vis … stability and “international financial support” to distressed countries in reducing bond spreads. Moreover, weekend news enables …
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Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This paper analyses their monetary policy effects from three perspectives. First, from the perspective of the central banks, it shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit...
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daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P Green Bond Index (GREEN) and the Dow Jones (DJ) Islamic World …. The mortality rate, surprisingly, seems to have affected stock and bond prices positively with autocorrelated errors. As …
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results document the important role played by the news variables. More specifically, news pessimism and intensity affect bond … disagreement has a significant effect, and only on bond inflows into the US. Most results are robust to the exclusion of the six …
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