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Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission

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  • Altavilla, Carlo
  • Pagano, Marco
  • Simonelli, Saverio

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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 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.

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  • Altavilla, Carlo & Pagano, Marco & Simonelli, Saverio, 2016. "Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission," CEPR Discussion Papers 11269, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    Keywords

    bank lending; credit risk; crisis; euro; sovereign exposures; sovereign risk;

    JEL classification:

    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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