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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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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...

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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...

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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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Convenient but risky government bonds

Kaldorf, Matthias; Röttger, Joost - 2023

How does convenience yield interact with sovereign risk and the supply of government bonds? We propose a model of sovereign debt and default in which convenience yield arises because investors are able to pledge government bonds as collateral on financial markets. Convenience yield is dependent...

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Selective default expectations

Accominotti, Olivier; Albers, Thilo N. H.; Oosterlinck, Kim - 2023

This paper explores how selective default expectations affect the pricing of sovereign bonds in a historical laboratory: the German default of the 1930s. We analyze yield differentials between identical government bonds traded across various creditor countries before and after bond market...

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The fire-sale channels of universal banks in the European sovereign debt crisis

Bagattini, Giulio; Fecht, Falko; Weber, Patrick - 2019

We use a unique security-level data set to analyze correlations in bond trading of banks, their respective retail customers and their affiliated mutual funds. Matching banks' proprietary holdings with the holdings of their funds and their retail customers for the period 2009-2016 at the security...

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The sovereign-bank diabolic loop and ESBies

Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Garicano, Luis; Lane, Philip R. - 2016

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Sovereign default swap market efficiency and country risk in the eurozone

Gündüz, Yalın; Kaya, Orcun - 2013

sovereign CDSs of 10 eurozone countries to test the evidence of long memory behavior during the financial crisis. Our analysis … eurozone countries by estimating dynamic conditional correlations. -- Credit default swaps ; long memory ; sovereign risk … ; eurozone economies ; FIGARCH ; dynamic conditional correlation …

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The (ir)relevance of the nominal lower bound for real yield curve analysis

Schupp, Fabian - 2020

I propose a new term structure model for euro area real and nominal interest rates which explicitly incorporates a time-varying lower bound for nominal interest rates. Results suggest that the lower bound is of importance in structural analyses implying time-varying impulse responses of yield...

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