Rien Wagenvoort
;
Sanne Zwart

uncovering the common risk-free rate in the european monetary union (replication data)

We introduce longitudinal factor analysis (LFA) to extract the common risk-free (CRF) rate from a sample of sovereign bonds of countries in a monetary union. Since LFA exploits the typically very large longitudinal dimension of bond data, it performs better than traditional factor analysis methods that rely on the much smaller cross-sectional dimension. European sovereign bond yields for the period 2006-2011 are decomposed into a CRF rate, a default risk premium and a liquidity risk premium. Our empirical findings suggest that investors chase both credit quality and liquidity, and that they price double default risk on credit default swaps.

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Wagenvoort, Rien; Zwart, Sanne (2014): UNCOVERING THE COMMON RISK-FREE RATE IN THE EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION (replication data). Version: 1. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022321.0713863940