Political uncertainty, risk of Frexit and European sovereign spreads

Clément Malgouyres and Clément Mazet-Sonilhac ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 14, 1004-1009

Abstract: Using data from a prediction market (crowd-based forecasts), we build a daily measure capturing the risk of Frexit related to the 2017 French presidential elections. We study how unexpected changes in this new measure of political uncertainty in France affect European sovereign spreads vis-à-vis Germany. We show that our uncertainty proxy drives not only the French sovereign spread but also the spreads of those EU countries deemed the most vulnerable to the risk of desegregation of the Euro Zone. These results suggest that specific political uncertainty affects short-term investor’s expectations and may outweigh other economic determinants of sovereign spreads shortly prior to high stake elections

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1391991

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