The tax exemption of interest revenues and the high level of professional secrecy were the unique selling points of Luxembourg for the German banking community. From the 1960s to the 1990s, they were the main causes for the rise of Luxembourg to one of the biggest euromarket places. The...

This paper aims to find if the market-based measure of monetary policy expectations such as the Eurodollar future rates has predictive power in anticipating trend changes in Treasury curves. The report examines the empirical relationship between Eurodollar pack spreads and Treasury curves and...

In this paper, we investigate the determinants of the Euro term structure of credit spreads. More specifically, we analyze whether the sensitivity of credit spread changes to financial and macroeconomic variables depends on bond characteristics such as rating and maturity. According to the...

The Eurosystem has become one of the crucial players in the market for euro area government bonds. After first substantive purchases through the Securities Market Programme (SMP) in 2010, the Eurosystem's involvement has reached a new breadth and magnitude with the establishment of the Public...

The Eurosystem has become one of the crucial players in the market for euro area government bonds. After first substantive purchases through the Securities Market Programme (SMP) in 2010, the Eurosystem’s involvement has reached a new breadth and magnitude with the establishment of the Public...

This paper investigates the role of monetary policy uncertainty for the transmission of FOMC actions to financial markets using a novel model-free measure of uncertainty based on derivative prices. We document a systematic pattern in monetary policy uncertainty over the course of the FOMC...

In this article, we analyse and compare the yield curve risk of interest rates. Our evidence is from the Swedish futures market based on 3 and 6 month Eurodollar futures contract. The shape of the yield curve can be upward, flat and downward. But what is a yield curve? It is a line that shows...

This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

Average rates in the decentralized unsecured market for euro funds, like the EONIA for the overnight maturity, are fundamental indicators of the smooth transmission of the signal rate by the central bank. Public information plays an important role in this context, as key interest rates are set...

This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

The pattern of information flows between Eurodollar spot and futures markets is examined using a robust two-step procedure. This procedure allows for conditional mean and variance dynamics as well as conditional heteroskedasticity. We find spot rates affect futures data and vice versa. In...

In this article, we test the backwardation and contango effects on a 3 – month Eurodollar futures contract by applying a vector error correction, VEC, model. Backwardation is a case where the futures price is below the spot price. It takes place when there is advantage to hold the underlying...

This paper develops a methodology, based on Furfine (1999), for identifying unsecured interbank money market loans from the transaction data of the most important euro payment processing system TARGET2, for maturities ranging from one day (overnight) up to three months. The implementation has...

Dietrich Murswiek, Universität Freiburg, analysiert in seinem Kommentar die Maßnahmen zur »Euro-Rettung« unter verfassungsrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten.

Dietrich Murswiek, Universität Freiburg, analysiert in seinem Kommentar die Maßnahmen zur »Euro-Rettung« unter verfassungsrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten.

London’s interbank market went through a sectoral shift in recent years. The rate at which banks channel funds back into the interbank market declined sharply following the introduction of the euro and the subsequent contraction in foreign exchange trading. Surplus dollars from the banking...

This paper develops a methodology, based on Furfine (1999), to identify unsecured interbank money market loans from transaction data of the most important euro processing payment system, TARGET2, for maturity ranging from one day (overnight) up to three months. The implementation has been...

What factors and developments have fuelled the "cartelisation" of capital markets? - to the extent of the rigging of EURIBOR and LIBOR rates? In what ways can EURIBOR and LIBOR rate rigging practices be addressed?How and why have offshore markets expanded to the degree and extent to which they...

After August 2007 the plumbing system that supplied banks with wholesale funding, the interbank market, failed because toxic assets obstructed the pipes. Banks were forced to squeeze liquidity in a 'lemons market' or to ask for liquidity 'on tap' from central banks. This paper disentangles the...

This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro-denominated government securities on a number of (relatively large) domestic markets and on a (relatively small) European marketplace (EuroMTS). Using twenty-seven months of daily...

»Sparen« oder »Wachstum«: Dies seien die alternativen Wirtschaftspolitiken, zwischen denen Politiker gegenwärtig wählen könnten. Hans-Werner Sinn und Niklas Potrafke zeigen, dass eine solche Alternative die Öffentlichkeit in die Irre führt. Zusätzliche Staatsausgaben zur...

Die Europäische Zentralbank hat im Zuge der Finanzkrise und der sich verschlechternden realwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung im Euroraum die Leitzinsen auf ein historisches Allzeittief gesenkt. Welche Risiken birgt die Niedrigzinspolitik? Nach Ansicht von Michael Schubert, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt...

Die Europäische Zentralbank hat im Zuge der Finanzkrise und der sich verschlechternden realwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung im Euroraum die Leitzinsen auf ein historisches Allzeittief gesenkt. Welche Risiken birgt die Niedrigzinspolitik? Nach Ansicht von Michael Schubert, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt...

»Sparen« oder »Wachstum«: Dies seien die alternativen Wirtschaftspolitiken, zwischen denen Politiker gegenwärtig wählen könnten. Hans-Werner Sinn und Niklas Potrafke zeigen, dass eine solche Alternative die Öffentlichkeit in die Irre führt. Zusätzliche Staatsausgaben zur...

Deutschland hat bis Februar 2011 für 321 Mrd. Euro Target-Forderungen gegen die EZB aufgebaut, die GIPS-Länder, also Griechenland, Irland, Portugal und Spanien, haben bis zum Ende des Jahres 2010 für rund 340 Mrd. Euro verzinsliche Target-Verbindlichkeiten gegen die EZB zur Finanzierung der...

Die Eurokrise wird potenziell immer teurer. In seinem Kommentar zeigt Hans-Werner Sinn auf, dass bislang 802 Mrd. Euro an Hilfskrediten für notleidende Eurostaaten vergeben wurden.

This paper provides an assessment of the impact of the covered bond purchase programme (hereafter referred to as the CBPP) relative to its policy objectives. The analysis presented on the impact of the CBPP on both the primary and secondary bond markets indicates that the Programme has been an...

Die Eurokrise wird potenziell immer teurer. In seinem Kommentar zeigt Hans-Werner Sinn auf, dass bislang 802 Mrd. Euro an Hilfskrediten für notleidende Eurostaaten vergeben wurden.

Deutschland hat bis Februar 2011 für 321 Mrd. Euro Target-Forderungen gegen die EZB aufgebaut, die GIPS-Länder, also Griechenland, Irland, Portugal und Spanien, haben bis zum Ende des Jahres 2010 für rund 340 Mrd. Euro verzinsliche Target-Verbindlichkeiten gegen die EZB zur Finanzierung der...

This paper provides an assessment of the impact of the covered bond purchase programme (hereafter referred to as the CBPP) relative to its policy objectives. The analysis presented on the impact of the CBPP on both the primary and secondary bond markets indicates that the Programme has been an...