Acharya, Viral V.; Gündüz, Yalin; Johnson, Timothy C. - 2021
Using a comprehensive dataset from German banks, we document the usage of sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) during … the European sovereign debt crisis of 2008-2013. Banks used the sovereign CDS market to extend, rather than hedge, their … protection selling in CDS, the effect being weaker when sovereign risk is high. Bank and country risk variables are mostly not …