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This paper sets the background for the Special Issue of the Journal of Empirical Finance on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. It identifies the channel through which risks in the financial industry leaked into the public sector. It discusses the role of the bank rescues in igniting the...
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this crisis. During the Irish financial crisis from 2007 to 2010, strong contagion effects are uncovered between Irish … equity markets and the investigated European equity markets. The contagion effects are found to ease dramatically in the … intervention as a mechanism to mitigate and absorb contagion associated with state-specific financial crises and if possible …
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have been subject to contagion. We proceed in three steps. First, we apply dynamic conditional correlations from a … simple interdependence from contagion. Third, we analyze the determinants behind credit risk co-movements and the role of … contagion using regression analysis. Our results reveal a high degree of co-movements in sovereign credit risk, especially for …
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This paper examines the contagion of the eurozone debt crisis to developed and emerging stock markets around the world … eurozone debt crisis, this paper finds strong and pervasive evidence of negative contagion from the crisis countries to other … contagion. The impact of equity returns of crisis countries on other equity markets is large and positive during normal times …
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This paper investigates Germany's vulnerability to the ongoing Euroland crisis. In 2010-11, Germany experienced a strong rebound from the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The Euroland crisis then meant record low interest rates and a depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But...
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financial system to minimize potential contagion losses. Building on ideas from combinatorial optimization tailored to … controlling contagion in case of complete information about an interbank network, we augment the model with three plausible types … contagion losses and the policy authority's ability to control them depend on the assumed fire sale mechanism and the fiscal …
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the interbank market. Using a simple network structure, it shows that if there is a non-zero bailout probability, banks …
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This paper designs a systemic risk measure for the European banking system as a hypothetical distress insurance premium (DIP), which integrates economically the main characteristics of systemic risk — size, default probability, and interconnectedness. We further identify the individual...
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This article explores the determinants of bank rescue packages in the European Union during the recent financial crisis. Despite the common EU framework, member states had room for manoeuvre with respect to the size and structure of bank rescue packages as well as the conditions attached to the...
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debt crisis, elections in European countries have stronger contagion effects in their own region during a global slowdown …
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