Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83955 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2013/03
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We provide an assessment of the determinants of the risk premia paid by non-financial corporations on long-term bonds. By looking at 5,500 issues over the period 2005-2012, we find that in recent years the sovereign debt market turbulence has been a major driver of corporate risk. Compared with the three-year period 2005-07 before the global financial crisis, in the years 2010-12 Italian, Spanish and Portuguese firms paid on average between 70 and 120 basis points of additional premium due to the negative spillovers from the sovereign debt crisis, while German firms got a discount of 40 basis points.
Subjects: 
Corporate bonds
Risk-premium
Too big to fail, Sovereign debt crisis
JEL: 
G38
G32
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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