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Bank use of sovereign CDS in the eurozone crisis : hedging and risk incentives
Acharya, Viral V.; Gündüz, Yalın; Johnson, Tim - 2018
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 long exposures to sovereign risk during this period....
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Equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the great recession and the European sovereign debt crisis
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Liu, Estelle X.; Schmittmann, … - 2013
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
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Banks and sovereign risk : a granular view
Buch, Claudia M.; Koetter, Michael; Ohls, Jana - 2013
In this paper, we use detailed data on the sovereign debt holdings of all German banks to analyse the determinants of sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First, sovereign bond holdings are heterogeneous across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787584
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Sovereign risk and bank fragility
Anand, Kartik; Mankart, Jochen - 2020
We develop a model of bank risk-taking with strategic sovereign default risk. Domestic banks invest in real projects and purchase government bonds. While an increase in bond purchases crowds out profitable investments, it improves the government's incentives to repay and therefore lowers its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301195
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The IMF to the rescue : did the euro area benefit from the fund's experience in crisis fighting?
Dullien, Sebastian; Fritz, Barbara; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2016
The paper analyses how the IMF brought its experience gained in emerging market sovereign debt crises in the troika’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in the 2000s. We examine subsequent changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548057
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The credit quality channel : modeling contagion in the interbank market
Fink, Kilian; Krüger, Ulrich; Meller, Barbara; Wong, … - 2015
We propose an algorithm to model contagion in the interbank market via what we term the credit quality channel. In … existing models on contagion via interbank credit, external shocks to banks often spread to other banks only in case of a … questions. For that purpose, we propose to measure the potential cost of contagion of a given shock scenario by the aggregated …
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Optimal liquidity control and systemic risk in an interbank network with liquidity shocks and regime-dependent interconnectedness
Chotipong Charoensom; Thaisiri Watewai - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259623
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The sovereign-bank diabolic loop and ESBies
Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Garicano, Luis; Lane, Philip R. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475037
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Does the US contagion risk affect foreign direct investment inflows in emerging economies?
Woraphon Yamaka; Paravee Maneejuk - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320179
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Capturing information contagion in a stress-testing framework
Anand, Kartik; Gauthier, Céline; Gai, Prasanna; … - 2016
We develop an operational model of information contagion and show how it may be integrated into a mainstream, top … quantify this contagion channel in the context of the Bank of Canada's model of the Canadian banking system and a stress …
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