Effects of monetary policy announcements on term premia in the euro area during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Asset purchases Monetary policy Sovereign risk Term premia

Journal

Finance research letters
ISSN: 1544-6131
Titre abrégé: Financ Res Lett
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101768122

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jan 2022
Historique:
received: 31 08 2020
revised: 03 11 2020
accepted: 05 04 2021
entrez: 25 4 2022
pubmed: 26 4 2022
medline: 26 4 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We study the effects of the announcement of the ECB's Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) on ten-year government bond term premia in eleven euro-area countries, while controlling for other ECB statements. We find that the term premia of government bonds in euro area countries with higher sovereign risk, as measured by sovereign CDS spreads, decreased more in response to the announcement of the PEPP. This occurred after these term premia had risen in response to a prior monetary policy press conference statement by the ECB president that the ECB was "not here to close spreads".

Identifiants

pubmed: 35463215
doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102055
pii: S1544-6123(21)00136-7
pmc: PMC9014297
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

102055

Informations de copyright

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.

Références

Financ Res Lett. 2020 Jul;35:101512
pubmed: 32562472

Auteurs

Richhild Moessner (R)

Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland, and NIESR, United Kingdom.
CESifo, Germany.

Jakob de Haan (J)

University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
CESifo, Germany.

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