Contagion in the Euro Area Sovereign Bond Market

In the last half-decade the European Monetary Union (EMU) has experienced a growing financial instability culminating with an extended sovereign debt crisis that has hit mostly the peripheral countries. Besides weak macroeconomic fundamentals, contagion phenomena in the government bond market damage...

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Main Author: Umberto Muratori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-12-01
Series:Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/1/66