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International liquidity shocks and the European sovereign debt crisis : was euro area unconventional monetary policy successful?
Everett, Mary M. - 2015
Using novel data on individual euro area banks' balance sheets this paper shows that exposure to stressed European sovereigns manifested in a liquidity shock to their international funding through two channels: (i) a contraction in cross-border funding, and (ii) a contraction in US wholesale...
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What drives sovereign debt portfolios of banks in a crisis context?
Lamas, Matías; Mencía, Javier - 2019
We study determinants of sovereign portfolios of Spanish banks over a long time-span, starting in 2008. Our findings challenge the view that banks engaged in moral hazard strategies to exploit the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures. In particular, we show that being a weakly capitalized...
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Credit Rating Agency Announcements and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis
Baum, Christopher F. - 2013
French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011 …-time capital allocation in the Eurozone. Their downgradings caused investors to rebalance their portfolios across member countries …
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An outline of a progressive resolution to the euro-area sovereign debt overhang : how a five-year suspension of the debt burden could overthrow austerity
Sōtēropulos, Dēmētrēs P.; Mēlios, Giannēs G.; … - 2014
restructuring of any foreign eurozone country. Debt will not be forgiven: individual states will agree to buy it back from the ECB …
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What drives sovereign debt portfolios of banks in a crisis context?
Lamas, Matías; Mencía, Javier - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946887
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A Tale of Two Eurozones : Banks' Funding, Sovereign Risk & Unconventional Monetary Policies
Fulli-Lemaire, Nicolas - 2014
sparked an unprecedented sovereign debt crisis that rapidly spread to the Euro-Zone's weakest member states. As the crisis … increasingly drove a wedge between a seemingly resilient Euro-Zone core and its faltering periphery, its first collateral victims … were the private banks of the hardest-hit sovereigns. They were rapidly followed by the rest of the Euro-Zone's banks as a …
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Sovereign default, exit and contagion in a monetary union
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Kobielarz, Michał; Uras, Burak - In: Journal of international economics 113 (2018), pp. 1-19
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Sovereign default risk and banks in a monetary union
Uhlig, Harald - 2013 - This revision: August 12, 2013
This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
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Announcements of ECB unconventional programs : implications for the sovereign risk of Italy
Falagiarda, Matteo; Reitz, Stefan - 2013
This paper studies the effects of ECB communications about unconventional monetary policy operations on the perceived sovereign risk of Italy over the last five years. More than fifty events concerning non-standard operations are identified and classified with respect to the specific ECB...
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