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01CONTEXT

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02EXPLAIN

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03COMPARE

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04SOURCE

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05CITE

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06VISUAL

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Research & Studies

A source-first research index for reporters who need the paper behind the claim — with a short BondStats reading of what matters for the story.

9 studies indexed · Primary-source links · BondStats summaries
BIS · 2026Fiscal Risk

Financial and real effects of fiscal risk

Identifies fiscal-risk shocks from sovereign and safe-corporate bond yields and traces their effects across inflation, output, exchange rates and equities.

Journalist angle: Useful when reporting on budget announcements, fiscal credibility and sudden sovereign yield repricing.

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BIS · 2026Monetary Policy

Public debt and monetary policy transmission

Examines how the size and maturity structure of public debt can change the way monetary-policy moves pass through the economy.

Journalist angle: Useful for stories on refinancing pressure, debt-service costs and the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy.

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BIS · 2026Financial Stability

The evolving nexus: sovereigns, banks and NBFIs

Studies how sovereign risk is transmitted through banks and non-bank financial institutions as their role in government-bond markets grows.

Journalist angle: Useful for reporting on financial-stability spillovers from sovereign stress.

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BIS · 2025Sovereign Risk

Decoding climate-related risks in sovereign bond pricing

Studies how transition and physical climate risks are reflected in sovereign yields across a large cross-country sample.

Journalist angle: Useful when connecting climate shocks, fiscal capacity and sovereign borrowing costs.

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BIS · 2024Green Bonds

Sovereign green bonds and sustainable debt markets

Assesses whether sovereign green-bond issuance supports the development, pricing and liquidity of sustainable corporate bond markets.

Journalist angle: Useful for stories on sovereign green issuance and market-development effects.

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BIS · 2022Debt Sustainability

Debt sustainability and monetary policy: ECB asset purchases

Integrates asset purchases, sovereign spreads and debt dynamics in a stochastic debt-sustainability framework.

Journalist angle: Useful when covering QE/QT, spread compression and sovereign debt trajectories.

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BIS · 2022Market Plumbing

Money markets, collateral and monetary policy

Examines secured and unsecured money markets, collateral haircuts and central-bank liquidity during European financial stress.

Journalist angle: Useful for explaining how sovereign stress travels through collateral and bank funding markets.

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BIS · 2017QE & Liquidity

Scarcity effects of QE in the Bund market

Uses transaction-level German government-bond data to study QE price effects, scarcity and market liquidity.

Journalist angle: Useful for explaining why central-bank purchases can affect both yields and bond-market liquidity.

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BIS · 2013Sovereign Spreads

Intraday dynamics of euro area sovereign CDS and bonds

Compares price discovery in sovereign bond and CDS markets during the euro-area sovereign debt crisis.

Journalist angle: Useful for historical context around sovereign-credit repricing and spread discovery.

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