Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171155 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6691
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme in August 2012. This regime is characterised by a weakened link between spreads and fundamentals, but with higher spreads relative to the pre-crisis period and residual redenomination risk. We also find that unconventional monetary policy measures affect the pricing of sovereign risk not only directly, but also indirectly through changes in banking risk.
Subjects: 
euro area
spreads
crisis
time-varying relationship
unconventional monetary policy
JEL: 
E43
E44
F30
G01
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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