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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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Measuring connectedness of euro area sovereign risk

Buse, Rebekka; Schienle, Melanie - 2019

We introduce a method for measuring default risk connectedness of euro zone sovereign states using credit default swap (CDS) and bond data. The connectedness measure is based on an out-of-sample variance decomposition of model forecast errors. Due to its predictive nature, it can respond more...

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Bank Use of Sovereign CDS in the Eurozone Crisis : Hedging and Risk Incentives

Acharya, Viral V.; Gündüz, Yalın; Johnson, Tim - 2021

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Bank Use of Sovereign CDS in the Eurozone Crisis : Hedging and Risk Incentives

Acharya, Viral V. - 2019

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Banks and sovereign risk : a granular view

Buch, Claudia M.; Koetter, Michael; Ohls, Jana - 2015

holdings by banks to eurozone membership and inflation increased significantly since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Since the …

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Banks and sovereign risk : a granular view

Buch, Claudia M.; Koetter, Michael; Ohls, Jana - 2013

In this paper, we use detailed data on the sovereign debt holdings of all German banks to analyse the determinants of sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First, sovereign bond holdings are heterogeneous across...

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Systemic risk and sovereign debt in the Euro area

Radev, Deyan - 2013

We introduce a new measure of systemic risk, the change in the conditional joint probability of default, which assesses the effects of the interdependence in the financial system on the general default risk of sovereign debtors. We apply our measure to examine the fragility of the European...

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Sovereign credit risk co-movements in the eurozone : simple interdependence or contagion? ; conference paper

Buchholz, Manuel; Tonzer, Lena - 2014

Since the onset of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, credit risk spreads in Europe have diverged. Despite this … divergence, credit risk comoves strongly within certain country groups such as the eurozone periphery. We seek to answer what the … eurozone countries during the sovereign debt crisis. We find strong evidence for both fundamentals and nonfundamentals based …

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The zero risk fallacy? : banks' sovereign exposure and sovereign risk spillovers

Kirschenmann, Karolin; Korte, Josef; Steffen, Sascha - 2017

European banks are exposed to a substantial amount of risky sovereign debt. The "missing bank capital" resulting from the zero-risk weight exemption for European banks for European sovereign debt amplifies the co-movement between sovereign CDS spreads and facilitates cross-border...

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Measuring connectedness of Euro area sovereign risk

Buse, Rebekka; Schienle, Melanie - 2015

We introduce a methodology for measuring default risk connectedness that is based on an out-of-sample variance decomposition of model forecast errors. The out-of-sample nature of the procedure leads to "realized" measures which, in practice, respond more quickly to crisis occurrences than those...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503874