The purpose of this paper is to test whether tensions in the sovereign of the 5 largest euro area Member States had an impact on the funding sources of the most relevant banks based in these Member States and more specically, on the issuance of covered bonds. This could constitute additional...

We provide a new measure of sovereign country risk exposure to global sovereign tail risk (SCRE) based on information incorporated in 5-year sovereign CDS spreads. Our panel regressions with quarterly data from 53 countries show that macro risks have strong explanatory power for SCRE. After...