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This paper quantifies liquidity and credit premia in German and French government bond yields. For this purpose, we …-`a-vis government bonds can be attributed to differences in liquidity premia. Adding the information on risk-free rates, we obtain model …
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find that on-the-run status has only a negligible effect on the liquidity and pricing once other factors have been … market, leads to significant liquidity spillovers. Specifically, we find that bonds which are deliverable into futures …
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a liquidity trap? To provide an answer, we employ a small stochastic New Keynesian model with a zero bound on nominal …-term nominal interest rate and debt-financed government spending. The optimal policy response to a liquidity trap critically … sector expectations that helps to dampen the fall in output and inflation at the outset of the liquidity trap …
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A key insight from the open economy literature is that domestic price stability is in general not optimal for countries that exert some market power over their terms of trade. Under commitment, a national benevolent monetary policymaker improves upon the allocation associated with stable...
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In this paper, we study the dynamics and drivers of sovereign bond yields in euro area countries using a factor model with time-varying loading coeffi cients and stochastic volatility, which allows for capturing changes in the pricing mechanism of bond yields. Our key contribution is exploring...
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This paper investigates the link between sovereign ratings and macroeconomic fundamentals for a group of euro area countries which recorded rating downgrades amid the euro area sovereign debt crisis. We apply an elaborated econometric estimation technique, based on a Bayesian ordered probit...
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and conditioning non-linearly to liquidity risk. Correlations are state-dependent and heterogeneous across jurisdictions …
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precautionary liquidity buffers or indeed to execute carry trades, such as to invest in non-domestic government bonds …
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This paper investigates to what extent yield spreads on bonds issued by sub-sovereign entities within federations are driven by bailout expectations and investors' risk appetite, as opposed to fundamental values related to default risk. The question is analysed both across and within federations...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the macroeconomic impact of the expanded asset purchase programme (APP) announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) in January 2015. The shock associated to the APP is identified with a combination of sign, timing and magnitude restrictions in the...
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