Arbeitspapier

Credit rating agency announcements and the eurozone sovereign debt crisis

This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade announcements negatively affected the value of the Euro currency and also increased its volatility. Downgrading increased the yields of French, Italian and Spanish bonds but lowered the German bond's yields, although Germany's rating status was never touched by CRA. There is no evidence for Granger causality from bond yields to rating announcements. We infer from these findings that CRA announcements significantly influenced crisis-time capital allocation in the Eurozone. Their downgradings caused investors to rebalance their portfolios across member countries, out of ailing states' debt into more stable borrowers' securities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1333

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
Financial Crises
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Foreign Exchange
International Policy Coordination and Transmission
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Finance
Thema
Credit Rating Agencies
Euro Crisis
Sovereign Debt
Euro Exchange Rate

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Baum, Christopher F.
Karpava, Margarita
Schäfer, Dorothea
Stephan, Andreas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2013

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Baum, Christopher F.
  • Karpava, Margarita
  • Schäfer, Dorothea
  • Stephan, Andreas
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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