Sovereign debt holdings and banks' credit risk: Evidence from the Eurozone
Finance Research Letters(2022)
Abstract
This paper investigates the direct effect of sovereign debt holding on banks' credit risk. Using individual Eurozone listed banks' information, we find that holding sovereign debt improves the level of banks' credit risk, but this effect is reversed when the credit risk associated with such debt is taken into account. For this purpose, we consider three alternative sovereign debt holding proxies and two types of banks' credit-risk measures, both forward-and backward looking. We find that the transmission of credit risk from sovereign debt holdings to banks' credit risk is only captured when forward-looking credit-risk measures, based on market data, are used.
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Key words
Bank credit-risk,Sovereign debt,Eurozone banks,Dynamic panel data
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