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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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-à-vis domestic bonds. This paper studies the effect of this jurisdiction choice on bond prices. We test whether foreign-law bonds …
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A safe asset is of high credit quality, retains its value in bad times, and is traded in liquid markets. We show that bonds issued by the European Union (EU) are widely considered to be of high credit quality, and that their yield spread over German Bunds remained contained during the 2020...
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captures the arbitrage-free dynamics of stock returns and nominal bond yields. The model nests the class of affine term … structure (of interest rates) models. Stock returns and bond yields as well as risk premia are affine functions of the state … variables: the dividend yield, two factors driving the one-period real interest rate and the rate of inflation. The model …
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-cyclical bias that has hampered its implementation in the low-growth low-inflation environment. We propose two parametric changes to … deviations of inflation from the central bank's objective; and, second, a reduced speed of adjustment. Putting a reformed debt …
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The purpose of this paper is to study the compensation for inflation risks priced in sovereign bond yields. And we do … for expected and unexpected inflation shocks embedded in sovereign bond yields; and provides estimates of the real risk … so by modelling the time-varying dynamics of asset returns and inflation, and then estimating the cost of hedging …
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from both corporate bonds and bank loans for forecasting of real activity, unemployment, inflation and lending volumes in … the euro area and in five major European economies. It also introduces a set of indicators for excess bond premia …, adjusting corporate bond spreads for credit risk of the issuer and the term, coupon and liquidity premia. I find that the …
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-term sovereign bond spread of Italy relative to Germany. After collecting data on relevant fiscal policy announcements, we perform an …
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estimates determinants of G7 sovereign bond spreads, using high‐frequency proxies for market expectations about macroeconomic …
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Using large panel data of public and private firms, this paper dissects the growth of bond financing in the Euro Area … through the lens of the cross-section of issuers. In recent years, the composition of bond issuers has shifted, with the entry …, holdings of ‘buy-and-hold’ bond investors are large in aggregate but small for weaker issuers. Nevertheless, the bond investors …
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