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UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY AND DEBT MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM THE EUROZONE
This study assesses the impact of the European Central Bank's Unconventional Monetary Policy (UMP) on sovereign bond yields in the Eurozone. While existing literature has explored this relationship, gaps remain in terms of comprehensiveness and methodology. This paper provides evidence on the long-term effects of the ECB's asset purchase programs by employing Random, Fixed Effects and the Hausman-Taylor for Panel Data approaches during the 2009 to 2023 time period, for a set of 14 European countries. This research finds that the ECB asset purchases effects on sovereign bond yields are larger for long-term bonds, and more pronounced for the periphery countries than for the core countries. The findings of this study have important implications for the investment public, as they provide valuable guidance for identifying how interventions on government debt securities induce price distortions within the debt markets.