Causality and contagion in EMU sovereign debt markets

This paper contributes to the literature by applying the Granger-causality approach and endogenous breakpoint test to offer an operational definition of contagion to examine European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries public debt behavior. A database of yields on 10-year government bonds is...

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Autores: Gómez-Puig, Marta, Sosvilla Rivero, Simón Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/34693
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34693
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:E44
F36
G15
C52
Sovereign bond yields
Granger-Causality
Contagion
Euro area
Crisis económicas
Econometría (Economía)
Economía internacional
Economía pública
5307.06 Fluctuaciones Económicas
5302 Econometría
5310 Economía Internacional
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Sumario:This paper contributes to the literature by applying the Granger-causality approach and endogenous breakpoint test to offer an operational definition of contagion to examine European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries public debt behavior. A database of yields on 10-year government bonds issued by 11 EMU countries covering fourteen years of monetary union is used. The main results suggest that the 41 new causality patterns, which appeared for the first time in the crisis period, and the intensification of causality recorded in 70% of the cases provide clear evidence of contagion in the aftermath of the current euro debt crisis.