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Sovereign bond yield spreads: A time-varying coefficient approach

We study the determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads across 10 EMU countries between Q1/1999 and Q1/2010. We apply a semiparametric time-varying coefficient model to identify, to what extent an observed change in the yield spread is due to a shift in macroeconomic fundamentals or due to altering risk pricing. We find that at the beginning of EMU, the government debt level and the general investors' risk aversion had a significant impact on interest differentials. In the subsequent years, however, financial markets paid less attention to the fiscal position of a country and the safe haven status of Germany diminished in importance. By the end of 2006, two years before the fall of Lehman Brothers, financial markets began to grant Germany safe haven status again. One year later, when financial turmoil began, the market reaction to fiscal loosening increased considerably. The altering in risk pricing over time period confirms the need of time-varying coefficient models in this context.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1078

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Fiscal Policy
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
National Deficit; Surplus
National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
Thema
Sovereign bond spreads
fiscal policy
euro area
financial crisis
semiparametric time-varying coefficient model
nonparametric estimation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bernoth, Kerstin
Erdogan, Burcu
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bernoth, Kerstin
  • Erdogan, Burcu
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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