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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 … associated with protection selling. The findings are driven by the actions of a few non-dealer banks which sold CDS protection …
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The zero risk fallacy? : banks' sovereign exposure and sovereign risk spillovers
Kirschenmann, Karolin; Korte, Josef; Steffen, Sascha - 2017
European banks are exposed to a substantial amount of risky sovereign debt. The "missing bank capital" resulting from … the zero-risk weight exemption for European banks for European sovereign debt amplifies the co-movement between sovereign … consider the trade-off of benefits of sovereign debt (for banks and sovereigns) and spillover risk when applying risk …
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The European sovereign debt crisis : what have we learned?
Kräussl, Roman; Lehnert, Thorsten; Stefanova, Denitsa - 2017
This paper sets the background for the Special Issue of the Journal of Empirical Finance on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. It identifies the channel through which risks in the financial industry leaked into the public sector. It discusses the role of the bank rescues in igniting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588156
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How connected is the global sovereign credit risk network?
Bostancı, Gorkem; Yılmaz, Kamil - 2015
We apply the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness index methodology on sovereign credit default swaps (SCDSs) to estimate the network structure of global sovereign credit risk. In particular, using the elastic net estimation method, we separately estimate networks of daily SCDS returns and volatilities...
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Private overborrowing under sovereign risk
Arce, Fernando - 2022
This paper proposes a quantitative theory of the interaction between private and public debt in an open economy. Excessive private debt increases the frequency of financial crises. During such crises the government provides fiscal bailouts financed with risky public debt. This response may cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013194400
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Sovereign credit risk co-movements in the eurozone : simple interdependence or contagion? ; conference paper
Buchholz, Manuel; Tonzer, Lena - 2014
Since the onset of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, credit risk spreads in Europe have diverged. Despite this divergence, credit risk comoves strongly within certain country groups such as the eurozone periphery. We seek to answer what the determinants of the observed pattern of credit risk...
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Why do investors buy sovereign default insurance?
Augustin, Patrick; Sokolovski, Valeri; Subrahmanyam, … - 2016
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of trading in the sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) market, using weekly data for single-name sovereign CDS from October 2008 to September 2015. We describe the anatomy of the sovereign CDS market, derive a law of motion for gross...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541398
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Financial stability in Europe : banking and sovereign risk
Brůha, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2017
We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
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Is size everything?
Antill, Samuel; Sarkar, Asani - 2018
time series and the cross section. TSIZE-implied subsidies increase around the bailout of Continental Illinois in 1984 and …
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Sovereign and bank CDS spreads : two sides of the same coin?
Cotter, John; Avino, Davide - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343569