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The paper provides a high-frequency analysis of liquidity dynamics in the eurozone sovereign bond market over tranquil … and crisis periods. We study time series of liquidity across the yield curve using high-frequency data from MTS, one of … Europe's leading electronic fixed-income trading platforms. We document flight-to-liquidity effects as investors prefer to …
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This paper studies the profitability of a selection of prominent momentum-based strategies in the European Monetary Union. In contrast to past examples documenting the lack of profitability of unconditional price momentum in the most recent decade, the current research finds that unconditional...
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Public sector corruption affects economic and financial outcomes, such as GDP growth, foreign direct investment, and government funding costs. Less is known about the spillovers from perceptions of public sector corruption on the private sector corporate bond market. In this paper, we assess the...
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This chapter examines the impact the European sovereign debt market crisis had on liquidity and volatility dynamics and … time-varying correlations as well as the intertemporal interactions of liquidity proxies with volatility and returns. Our …, Europe's premier electronic fixed-income trading market, is employed to construct a variety of microstructure liquidity and …
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Bid-ask spreads using intraday data reveal significant sensitivity to European Central Bank (ECB) macro announcements. Effects are strongest for announcements that comprise unexpected information or a change in interest rates, and spreads rise sharply during the minutes surrounding interest rate...
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This paper analyzes the impact and the spillover effect of a sovereign rating announcement on the euro area CDS market. Through the event study technique, we demonstrate that downgrades and upgrades considerably affect financial markets. The relevance of the impact is due to the introduction of...
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amount of money left on the table. Consistent with the information revelation theory, we argue that the underpricing …
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The admission by the Greek government on October 18, 2009, of large-scale accounting fraud in its national accounts sparked an unprecedented sovereign debt crisis that rapidly spread to the Euro-Zone's weakest member states. As the crisis increasingly drove a wedge between a seemingly resilient...
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In multi-country studies, researchers frequently extract data in a single currency rather than in native currencies. This approach can be misleading for financial analysts' forecasts in the euro zone when researchers are using the IBES database. We suspect that forecasts of earnings before the...
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