This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential … regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation … have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more government debt over time. We find that prudential regulation …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … in other "safe" countries will impose tighter regulation. As a result, governments in risky countries get to borrow more …