Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Title: Is the recent increase in long-term interest rates a threat to euro-area recovery? Handle: RePEc:bre:polcon:20686 Author-Name: Grégory Claeys Author-Name: Konstantinos Efstathiou Abstract: After reaching historically low levels, European long-term sovereign yields experienced a notable rise at the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017. This Creation-Date: 2017-05 File-URL: https://phpstack-765020-2596826.cloudwaysapps.com/sites/default/files/wp_attachments/PC-14-2017.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf