This paper investigates the role of banks foreign asset holdings in transmitting credit risk internationally. Foreign exposure in risky assets might severely a.ect the solvability of credit institutions. Credit risk, in turn, transfers from banks to public accounts as a consequence of implicit...

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between bank risk and sovereign credit risk in the euro area. Using structural VAR with daily financial markets data for 2003-13, the analysis confirms two-way causality between shocks to sovereign risk and bank risk, with the former being overall...