Credit Risk Interconnectedness: What Does the Market Really Know?

39 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2016

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Puriya Abbassi

Deutsche Bundesbank

Christian T. Brownlees

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

Christina Hans

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business

Natalia Podlich

Deutsche Bundesbank

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Date Written: 2016

Abstract

We analyze the relation between market-based credit risk interconnectedness among banks during the crisis and the associated balance sheet linkages via funding and securities holdings. For identification, we use a proprietary dataset that has the funding positions of banks at the bank-to-bank level for 2006-13 in conjunction with investments of banks at the security level and the credit register from Germany. We find asymmetries both cross-sectionally and over time: when banks face difficulties to raise funding, the interbank lending affects market-based bank interconnectedness. Moreover, banks with investments in securities related to troubled classes have a higher credit risk interconnectedness. Overall, our results suggest that market-based measures of interdependence can serve well as risk monitoring tools in the absence of disaggregated high-frequency bank fundamental data.

Keywords: Credit Risk, Networks, CDS, Interbank Lending, Portfolio Distance

JEL Classification: C33, C53, E44, F36, G12, G14, G18, G21

Suggested Citation

Abbassi, Puriya and Brownlees, Christian T. and Hans, Christina and Podlich, Natalia, Credit Risk Interconnectedness: What Does the Market Really Know? (2016). Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 09/2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2797083 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2797083

Puriya Abbassi (Contact Author)

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Christian T. Brownlees

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Christina Hans

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business ( email )

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Natalia Podlich

Deutsche Bundesbank ( email )

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D60006 Frankfurt
Germany

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