Does the funding cost differential between peripheral and non-peripheral European banks reflect poor quality of banks' assets (credit risk)? Or the quality of sovereign support in case of failure (sovereign-dependence risk)? Combining bank-to-bank loan data with supervisory information on banks'...

We measure the relative role of sovereign-dependence risk and balance sheet (credit) risk in euro area interbank market fragmentation from 2011 to 2015. We combine bank-to-bank loan data with detailed supervisory information on banks’ cross-border and cross-sector exposures. We study the...

We measure the relative role of sovereign-dependence risk and balance sheet (credit) risk in euro area interbank market fragmentation from 2011 to 2015. We combine bank-to-bank loan data with detailed supervisory information on banks' cross-border and cross-sector exposures. We study the impact...