Sovereign-bank linkages: Quantifying directional intensity of risk transfers in EMU countries

This study attempts to identify and trace inter-linkages between sovereign and banking risk for each main country in the euro area. To this end, we use an indicator of banking sector risk in each country based on the Contingent Claim Analysis literature, and 10-year government yield spreads over Ger...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Singh, Manish, Gómez-Puig, Marta, Sosvilla Rivero, Simón Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/23624
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23624
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:C22
E44
G01
G13
G21
Sovereign debt crisis
Banking crisis
Distance-to-default
Granger causality
Time-varying approach.
Bancos y cajas
Crisis económicas
Econometría (Economía)
Mercados bursátiles y financieros
5307.06 Fluctuaciones Económicas
5302 Econometría
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Sumario:This study attempts to identify and trace inter-linkages between sovereign and banking risk for each main country in the euro area. To this end, we use an indicator of banking sector risk in each country based on the Contingent Claim Analysis literature, and 10-year government yield spreads over Germany as a measure of sovereign risk. We apply a dynamic approach to test for Granger causality between the two measures of risk in each country, allowing us to check for episodes of significant and abrupt increase in short-run causal linkages. The empirical results indicate that episodes of causality intensification vary considerably in both directions over time and across the different EMU countries. The directionality suggests the presence of causality intensification, mainly from banks to sovereigns in crisis periods.