How big a risk is contagion from France?

  • Contagion from France’s government bond market to the rest of the euro-zone will probably be muted and short-lived unless France’s own crisis becomes much bigger than we expect. This is partly because the conditions for a systemic crisis in the euro-zone are not currently in place.

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