The relative pricing of sovereign credit risk after the Eurozone crisis

Raffaele Corvino and Francesco Ruggiero

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2021, vol. 112, issue C

Abstract: We investigate whether riskier European countries compensate their debtholders properly by paying sufficiently higher bond yields than those of safer European countries, during and after the sovereign debt crisis of 2010–2012. Using the relative pricing between credit default swap (CDS) spreads and bond yields, we show that an inconsistent cross-sectional relationship between sovereign default risk and sovereign bond yields emerges during the crisis period for all European countries. However, after the announcement of the Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program by the European Central Bank, the consistent cross-sectional relationship between default risk and bond yields is restored for the Eurozone countries only, a result likely due to a reduction in transaction costs.

Keywords: Relative pricing; Bond yields; OMT program; Default risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 E58 G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2020.102337

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