Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission

58 Pages Posted: 16 May 2016

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Carlo Altavilla

European Central Bank (ECB)

Marco Pagano

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF); Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Saverio Simonelli

University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Statistics; Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) ; CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

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Date Written: May 2016

Abstract

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 sovereign stress by increasing their domestic sovereign holdings more than other banks, suggesting that their choices were affected both by moral suasion and by yield-seeking. Second, their exposures significantly amplified the transmission of risk from the sovereign and its impact on lending. And this amplification of the impact on lending cannot be ascribed to spurious correlation or reverse causality.

Keywords: credit risk, diabolic loop, euro debt crisis., lending, sovereign exposures, sovereign risk

JEL Classification: E44, F3, G01, G21, H63

Suggested Citation

Altavilla, Carlo and Pagano, Marco and Simonelli, Saverio, Bank Exposures and Sovereign Stress Transmission (May 2016). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11269, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2780377

Carlo Altavilla (Contact Author)

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Marco Pagano

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) ( email )

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Saverio Simonelli

University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economics and Statistics ( email )

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Napoli, Napoli 80126
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HOME PAGE: http://www.csef.it/Simonelli

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) ( email )

Via Cintia
Complesso Monte S. Angelo
Naples, Naples 80126
Italy

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