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Using novel monthly data for 226 euro-area banks from 2007 to 2015, we investigate the determinants of changes in banks’ sovereign exposures and their effects during and after the euro crisis. First, the publicly owned, recently bailed out and less strongly capitalized banks reacted to...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974892
The euro crisis was fueled by the diabolic loop between sovereign risk and bank risk, coupled with cross-border flight-to-safety capital flows. European Safe Bonds (ESBies), a union-wide safe asset without joint liability, would help to resolve these problems. We make three contributions. First,...
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This paper investigates the role that Eurobonds could play in making EMU stable in the long run. We establish that EMU's budgetary problems are not only caused by lack of budgetary discipline, but also by the large and sudden fiscal deterioration during the financial crisis. This type of shock...
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spreads is about one fifth of the corresponding correlation for emerging market economies. In Eurozone countries, however, the … financial crisis amplified the relationship between spreads and debt levels within the Eurozone but had no effect on the … liabilities is larger in the Eurozone than in standalone advanced economies. The paper concludes that debt composition matters and …
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We study the dynamics of sovereign risk spillovers from (and between) Spain and Italy, before and after the ECB's announcement of the OMT program. We identify domestic Italian and Spanish sovereign risk shocks through an intraday event study. The shocks are used as external instruments in...
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We estimate the effect of consolidation efforts on investors' perception of government's solvency. To this end, we analyze announcements by Dutch government officials between September 2008 and December 2014 and select those messages that contain relevant new information on the likelihood and...
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into the Eurozone. We assessed the pricing of sovereign risk by performing an OLS/2SLS fixed effects panel analysis on a … pool of Eurozone countries and a SUR regression with Portugal and Spain covering the period 1999:11 until 2019:6. Our …. Specifically, market pricing of the Eurozone credit risk, liquidity risk and the risk appetite increased after the crisis and it …
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horizons, and through time. We divide the countries into three groups; the Core of the Eurozone, the Periphery of the Eurozone … and the states outside the Eurozone. Results indicate that co-movement considerably decreased in the crisis period for all …
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