Dependence between Stock Returns of Italian Banks and the Sovereign Risk

We analyze the interdependence between the government yield spread and stock returns of the banking sector in Italy during the years 2003–2015. In a first step, we find that the Spearman’s rank correlation between the yield spread and the Italian banking system changed significantly after September...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fabrizio Durante, Enrico Foscolo, Alex Weissensteiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-06-01
Series:Econometrics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/5/2/23