Systemic and idiosyncratic risk in EU-15 sovereign yield spreads after seven years of monetary union

European Financial Management

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 971-1000

  Gómez Puig, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Monetary integration; Sovereign debt markets; Systemic and idiosyncratic risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749102972     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2009.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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