As with RMBS, this view that public debt was totally safe was underpinned by the “fact” that no advanced country, at least in the post-1945 era, had ever defaulted. Investors thus assumed that they did not need to assess the credit risk of eurozone countries’ (national) public debt.
与RMBS一样，公债是完全安全的这一观念也有“事实”支撑——没有哪个发达国家曾经违约过，至少1945年之后是如此。因此，投资者假定他们根本不需要去评估欧元区国家的（国家）公债信用风险。