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German Bond Yields and Debt Supply: Is There a “Bund Premium”?

By Anne-Charlotte Paret, Anke Weber

November 1, 2019

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Anne-Charlotte Paret, and Anke Weber. German Bond Yields and Debt Supply: Is There a “Bund Premium”?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

Are Bunds special? This paper estimates the “Bund premium” as the difference in convenience yields between other sovereign safe assets and German government bonds adjusted for sovereign credit risk, liquidity and swap market frictions. A higher premium suggests less substitutability of sovereign bonds. We document a rise in the “Bund premium” in the post-crisis period. We show that there is a negative relationship of the premium with the relative supply of German sovereign bonds, which is more pronounced for higher maturities and when risk aversion proxied by bond market volatility is high. Going forward, we expect German government debt supply to remain scarce, with important implications for the ECB’s monetary policy strategy.

Subject: Bond yields, Bonds, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial services, Sovereign bonds, Yield curve

Keywords: Bond premium, Bond Supply, Bond volatility, Bond yields, Bonds, Bund premia, Bund yield, Central Bank Quantitative Easing, Convenience yield, Debt supply, Demand curve, Global, Government bond yield, Long-term debt, Sovereign Bond Yields, Sovereign bonds, WP, Yield curve

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    34

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2019/235

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2019235

  • ISBN:

    9781513518329

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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