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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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Exposure to international crises : trade vs. financial contagion

Grant, Everett - 2016

distance, trade, and finance to the US subprime mortgage and Eurozone debt crisis areas. To understand the causes of the cross … primary contagion driver, rather than the trade channel. Given the substantial degree of financial contagion, I run a series … similarly severe contagion in the future, so long as there is not capital immobility to the degree that the local sovereign can …

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Sovereign risk and bank risk-taking

Ari, Anil - 2018

I propose a dynamic general equilibrium model in which strategic interactions between banks and depositors may lead to endogenous bank fragility and slow recovery from crises. When banks' investment decisions are not contractible, depositors form expectations about bank risk-taking and demand a...

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Regime-dependent sovereign risk pricing during the euro crisis

Delatte, Anne-Laure; Fouquau, Julien; Portes, Richard - 2016

Previous work has documented a greater sensitivity of long-term government bond yields to fundamentals in Euro area stress countries during the euro crisis, but we know little about the driver(s) of regime-switches. Our estimates based on a panel smooth threshold regression model quantify and...

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Bank exposures and sovereign stress transmission

Altavilla, Carlo; Pagano, Marco; Simonelli, Saverio - 2016

Using novel monthly data for 226 euro-area banks from 2007 to 2015, we investigate the causes and effects of banks' sovereign exposures during and after the euro crisis. First, in the vulnerable countries, the publicly owned, recently bailed out and less strongly capitalized banks reacted to...