scholarly journals What Factors Influence European Corporate Bond Spread?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Arcuri ◽  
Gino Gandolfi ◽  
Manou Monteux ◽  
Giovanni Verga
Keyword(s):  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Corporate Bond ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sovereign Bonds ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Main Determinants

This paper examines the main determinants of corporate euro-bond spread. We analyse a large sample of corporate euro-country bonds over the period May 2005 -January 2012, considering three sub-periods: May 2005- July 2007 (pre-crisis period), August 2007-April 2010 (worldwide financial crisis) and May 2010-January 2012 (European sovereign debt crisis). We show that both liquidity risk and risk related to the country of the issuing firms affect corporate bond spread. We also find that the market yield of corporate bonds issued in the main European countries is, other things being equal, strongly influenced by the risk of the corresponding sovereign bonds and Credit Default Swap (CDS). Finally, we compare the yields of bonds issued by banks with those of bonds issued by firms from other sectors and find that the spread, other things being equal, is significantly higher for banks. These findings may have operating implications for market activity, regulators and policy makers.

Credit Default Swaps: A Primer and Some Recent Trends

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
David Lando
Keyword(s):  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Default Swap ◽  
Trading Volumes

The credit default swap (CDS) remains an important class of derivatives contract despite the declining activity in the single-name corporate market. I provide a quick introduction to the contracts, the pricing formula used to interpret the market premiums, the development in trading volumes, and some key insights that are important for understanding its role in markets. I then take a closer look at the CDS-bond basis and the role of trading and regulatory frictions. Finally, the European sovereign debt crisis brought back in focus the notion of a quanto spread, which I explain.

scholarly journals European Sovereign Debt Crisis and its Impact on Financial Markets and Institutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Afzal Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Markets And Institutions ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the European sovereign debt crisis that began in 2009; it mostly considers Greece and then Italy and Portugal since they were affected by the crisis.  It gives the emergence and the causes of the crisis as well as its effect on their debt as a percentage to Gross Domestic Product and their Real Gross Domestic Product.  It also analyses the impact on sovereign bond and its yields, the stock, gold, derivatives and forex markets, including the impact on financial institutions, it uses graphical illustrations from Bloomberg to back the analysis.  It further assesses the measures taken so far by policy makers and financial institutions to curb the situation.  It finally considers the impact of the crisis on financial landscape and lessons learnt from it.

scholarly journals The Shift-Contagion Effect Of Global Financial Crisis And The European Sovereign Debt Crisis On OECD Countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irfan Akbar Kazi ◽  
Mohamed Mehanaoui ◽  
Farhan Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Dynamic Correlations ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

<p>This article investigates shift-contagion as defined by Forbes and Rigobon (2002) in 16 OECD member economies during most recent financial crisis i.e. global financial crisis (2008-2009) and European sovereign debt crisis (2009-2012), using multivariate asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation model developed by Cappiello et al. (2006). The empirical analyses provide substantial evidence of shifts in the dynamic correlations and hence reconfirm shift-contagion during the global financial crisis that originated from U.S. However, there is no evidence in support of shift-contagion during the European sovereign debt crisis which originated from events in Greece. The results provide important implications for investors and policy makers.</p>

scholarly journals Sovereign Credit Default Swap and Stock Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries: Are Feedback Effects at Work?

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorin Gabriel Anton ◽  
Anca Elena Afloarei Nucu
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Transfer Entropy ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Sovereign Credit ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Default Swap

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the relationship between sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS) and stock markets in nine emerging economies from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), using daily data over the period January 2008–April 2018. The analysis deploys a Vector Autoregressive model, focusing on the direction of Granger causality between the credit and stock markets. We find evidence of the presence of bidirectional feedback between sovereign CDS and stock markets in CEE countries. The results highlight a transfer entropy of risk from the private to public sector over the whole period and respectively, from the public to private transfer entropy of risk during the European sovereign debt crisis only in Romania and Slovenia. Another finding that deserves particular attention is that the linkage between the CDS spreads and stock markets is time-varying and subject to regime shifts, depending on global financial conditions, such as the sovereign debt crisis. By providing insights on the inter-temporal causality of the comovements of the CDS–stock markets, the paper has significant practical implications for risk management practices and regulatory policies, under different market conditions of European emerging economies.

Testing sovereign contagion via changes of CDS price in European debt crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Duong Thi Hieu
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Regression Approach ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Uk

Much empirical research has been carried out to test the presence of contagion in European sovereign debt crisis since the beginning of 2010. In this paper I will consider contagion as a change in the transmission mechanism of shock, illustrating co-movement among the sovereign credit default swap (CDS) markets of seven European countries and the UK from November 2008 up until June 2013. By examining daily pricing data of the five-year sovereign CDS contracts of these countries, I found a large increase in the volatility in the period of crisis, and hence a correlation test is invalid, but parametric method with GARCH residual time series and quantile regression approach are applicable. The first test modelling time series’ residuals by GARCH formula shows no contagion. In the second method, slope equality tests analyse the stability in linear relationship among markets across quantile and find no evidence of contagion. This final result of no contagion during the debt crisis suggests that the reason of the sovereign risk’s propagation is the conventional interdependence among countries, not the greatness of the shock.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Introduction of Uniform European Collective Action Clauses on European Government Bonds as a Regulatory Result of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Layher ◽  
Eyden Samunderu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Bond Yields ◽  
Member States ◽  
Sovereign Bond ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Collective Action Clauses

This paper conducts an empirical study on the inclusion of uniform European Collective Action Clauses (CACs) in sovereign bond contracts issued from member states of the European Union, introduced as a regulatory result of the European sovereign debt crisis. The study focuses on the reaction of sovereign bond yields from European Union member states with the inclusion of the new regulation in the European Union. A two-stage least squares regression analysis is adopted in order to determine the extent of impact effects of CACs on member states sovereign bond yields. Evidence is found that CACs in the European Union are priced on financial markets and that sovereign bond yields do respond to the inclusion of uniform CACs in the European Union.

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