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Bank use of sovereign CDS in the eurozone crisis : hedging and risk incentives

Acharya, Viral V.; Gündüz, Yalın; Johnson, Tim - 2018

Using a comprehensive dataset from German banks, we document the usage of sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) during the European sovereign debt crisis of 2008-2013. Banks used the sovereign CDS market to extend, rather than hedge, their long exposures to sovereign risk during this period....

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Cross-border lending and the international transmission of banking crises

Dieckelmann, Daniel - 2020

countries with high domestic crisis risk enable contagion to the home economy. This asset-side channel opposes traditional views …

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Repo funding and internal capital markets in the financial crisis

Kerl, Cornelia - 2013

This paper examines how the exposure of German parent banks to the disruptions on sale and repurchase markets (repo markets) during the financial crisis has affected their provision of funds to their foreign branches and subsidiaries via bank-internal capital markets. The collapse of the...

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Uncertainty shocks and financial crisis indicators

Hristov, Nikolay; Roth, Markus - 2019

The current paper broadens the understanding for the role of uncertainty in the context of a macroeconomic environment. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks on indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area countries...

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From financial to real economic crisis : evidence from individual firm-bank relationships in Germany

Dwenger, Nadja; Fossen, Frank M.; Simmler, Martin - 2015 - First version: February 14, 2015, This version: September 25, 2015

What began as a financial crisis in the United States in 2007-2008 quickly evolved into a massive crisis of the global real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the international transmission of bank distress to the real economy - in...

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Sovereign default swap market efficiency and country risk in the eurozone

Gündüz, Yalın; Kaya, Orcun - 2013

sovereign CDSs of 10 eurozone countries to test the evidence of long memory behavior during the financial crisis. Our analysis … eurozone countries by estimating dynamic conditional correlations. -- Credit default swaps ; long memory ; sovereign risk … ; eurozone economies ; FIGARCH ; dynamic conditional correlation …

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Cross-border liquidity, relationships and monetary policy : evidence from the Euro area interbank crisis

Abbassi, Puriya; Bräuning, Falk; Fecht, Falko; … - 2014 - This version: November 2014

We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on the compositional supply effects through cross-border and relationship lending. For empirical identification, we draw on the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset...

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To sign or not to sign? : on the response of prices to financial and uncertainty shocks

Meinen, Philipp; Röhe, Oke - 2018

Based on SVAR models identified by sign restrictions, we estimate the macroeconomic effects of financial and uncertainty shocks in the euro area and the US, paying particular attention to their effects on prices. While our results confirm that such disturbances are important drivers of output...

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The global financial cycle and macroeconomic tail risks

Beutel, Johannes; Emter, Lorenz; Metiu, Norbert; … - 2022

We study the link between the global financial cycle and macroeconomic tail risks using quantile vector autoregressions. Contractionary shocks to financial conditions and monetary policy in the United States cause elevated downside risks to growth around the world. By tightening financial...

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Fire buys of central bank collateral assets

Roure, Calebe de - 2017

In times of financial distress, central banks provide unlimited liquidity to avoid fire sales. In response, banks raise their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central...

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