We study the joint credit risk in the UK banking sector using the weekly CDS spreads of global systemically important banks over 2007-2015. We show that the time-varying and asymmetric dependence structure of the CDS spread changes is closely related to the joint default probability that two or...

This paper examines the driving effect of economic policy uncertainty on bank systemic risk with a distinction between systemic linkage and bank tail risk. Using bank-level data of 25 economies during the period 2010-2020, we find consistent and robust evidence that policy uncertainty is...