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We document that compared to all other investor groups investment funds exhibit a distinctly procyclical behavior when financial-market beliefs about the probability of a euro-related, institutional rare disaster spike. In response to such euro disaster risk shocks, investment funds shed...
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This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...
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This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. We use a two-step empirical approach. First, we apply a time-varying parameter panel modelling framework...
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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 coefficients 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 analyzes sovereign risk contagion in the Eurozone using an extension to the canonical model for contagion …
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market integration and contagion and demonstrates that the disintegration of the Eurozone sovereign debt markets was a … necessary condition for contagion. An analysis of extreme systemic shocks shows that contagion in the Eurozone debt crisis was … Eurozone countries in May 2010 coinciding with flight to quality from the periphery to the core and the 2010 “flash crash” in …
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In this paper we analyse the effects of all sources of the accumulation of nonfinancial debt (household, corporate as well as government) on economic growth in ten euro-area countries during the 1980-2015 period. To this end, we make use of three models (a baseline, an asymmetric and a threshold...
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The eurozone sovereign debt crisis, characterized by enormous debt burdens faced by its weakest economies, has also … peripheral eurozone countries have dropped in value and are being reclassified from their prior riskless weight assigned by Basel …
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