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As the global banking crisis intensified in the fall of 2008, governments announced comprehensive rescue packages for financial institutions. In this paper, we put the joint response of euro area bank and sovereign CDS premia under the microscope. We find that the bank rescue packages led to a...
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This paper presents a stress test model for the CDS market, with a focus on the interplay between banks' bond and CDS holdings. The model enables the analysis of credit risk transfer mechanisms, includes features of market and liquidity risk, and allows for contagious propagation of counterparty...
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This study investigates the dynamics of the sovereign CDS term premium for five European countries. The CDS term premium can be regarded as a forward-looking measure of idiosyncratic sovereign default risk as perceived by financial markets. Using a Markov-switching unobserved component model, we...
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We construct a measure of a bank's relative creditworthiness from Eurosystem's proprietary overnight loan data: the bank's “average overnight borrowing rate spread, relative to overnight rate index” (AOR). We investigate the dynamic relationship between the AOR and the credit default swap...
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Can banks trade credit default swaps (CDSs) referenced on their current corporate clients at competitive prices, or are banks penalized for potentially holding private information? To answer this question we merge CDS trades reported under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)...
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securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …
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illustrative: this country experienced a pronounced housing bubble partly funded via spectacular developments in its securitization …
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We investigate the effect of securitization activity on banks’ lending standards using evidence from pricing behavior … aggressive on their loan pricing practices. This suggests that securitization activity lead to laxer credit standards …. Macroeconomic factors also play a large role explaining the impact of securitization activity on bank lending standards: banks more …
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securitization activity on loans’ relative credit quality employing a uniquely detailed dataset from the euro-denominated syndicated … securitization, however, the credit quality of borrowers whose loans are securitized deteriorates by more than those in the control … detailed loan-by-loan information on loan credit quality would be useful to reap out the benefits of securitization. …
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securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …
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