Citation

Discussion Paper Details

Please find the details for DP11269 in an easy to copy and paste format below:

Full Details   |   Bibliographic Reference

Full Details

Title: Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission

Author(s): Carlo Altavilla, Marco Pagano and Saverio Simonelli

Publication Date: May 2016

Keyword(s): bank lending, credit risk, crisis, euro, sovereign exposures and sovereign risk

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics and Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: 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 crisis. First, public, bailed out and poorly capitalized banks responded to sovereign stress by purchasing domestic public debt more than other banks, with public banks? purchases growing especially in coincidence with the largest ECB liquidity injections. Second, bank exposures significantly amplified the transmission of risk from the sovereign and its impact on lending. This amplification of the impact on lending does not appear to arise from spurious correlation or reverse causality.

For full details and related downloads, please visit: https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11269

Bibliographic Reference

Altavilla, C, Pagano, M and Simonelli, S. 2016. 'Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11269