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Title: Does the European Financial Stability Facility bail out sovereigns or banks? An event study

Author(s): Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

Publication Date: November 2011

Keyword(s): Bailout, Banking, CDS spreads and Sovereign debt

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: On May 9, 2010 euro zone countries announced the creation of the European Financial Stability Facility as a response to the sovereign debt crisis. This paper investigates the impact of this announcement on bank share prices, bank CDS spreads and sovereign CDS spreads. The main private beneficiaries were bank creditors, especially of banks heavily exposed to southern Europe and Ireland and located in countries characterized by weak public finances. Furthermore, countries with weak public finances and banking systems heavily exposed to southern Europe and Ireland benefited, as evidenced by lower sovereign CDS spreads. The combined gains of bank debt holders and shareholders exceed the increase in the value of their sovereign debt exposures, suggesting that banks saw their contingent claim on the financial safety net increase in value.

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Horvath, B and Huizinga, H. 2011. 'Does the European Financial Stability Facility bail out sovereigns or banks? An event study'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8661