Causality and contagion in EMU sovereign debt markets

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 33, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-27

  Gómez Puig, Marta ^a   Sosvilla Rivero, Simón ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contagion; Euro area; Granger causality; Sovereign bond yields

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897385199     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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