Euro Money Market Spreads During the 2007-? Financial Crisis

26 Pages Posted: 9 Jul 2012

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Nuno Cassola

University of Milan Bicocca - CefES; University of Lisbon - CEMAPRE

Claudio Morana

Università di Milano Bicocca; Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS); Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Center for European Studies (CefES); Center for Economic Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP); Rimini Center for Economic Analysis - Europe ETS; Rimini Center for Economic Analysis - HQ

Date Written: May 14, 2012

Abstract

In the paper we investigate the empirical features of euro area money market turbulence during the recent financial crisis. By means of a novel Fractionally Integrated Heteroskedastic Factor Vector Autoregressive model, we find evidence of a deterministic level factor in the EURIBOR-OIS (OIS) spreads term structure, associated with the two waves of stress in the interbank market, following the BNP Paribas (9 August 2007) and the Lehman Brothers (16 September 2008) "shocks", and two additional factors, of the long memory type, bearing the interpretation of curvature and slope factors. The unfolding of the crisis yielded a significant increase in the persistence and volatility of OIS spreads. We also find evidence of a declining trend in the level and volatility of OIS spreads since December 2008, associated with ECB interest rate cuts and full allotment policy.

Keywords: Money market interest rates, credit/liquidity risk, fractionally integrated heteroskedastic factor vector autoregressive model

JEL Classification: C32, E43, E58, G15

Suggested Citation

Cassola, Nuno and Morana, Claudio, Euro Money Market Spreads During the 2007-? Financial Crisis (May 14, 2012). ECB Working Paper No. 1437, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2057983 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2057983

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