The euro sovereign debt crisis, determinants of default probabilities and implied ratings in the CDS market: an econometric analysis

In this paper, we investigate what has been leading investors to ask for higher yields on sovereign debt from certain Euro countries. We dismiss Granger Causality as a basis to define speculation. Instead, we assume that speculative behavior would only exist if market assessments were unrelated to e...

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Main Author: Santos, Carlos (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/14501
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/14501