Bank-sovereign risk spillovers in EMU

We investigate cross-sectional connectedness between Euro Area banking and sovereign risk. Average 'distance-to- default' based on all publicly listed banks headquartered in a particular country is used as an indicator of banking risk, while 10-year sovereign yield as the measure of sovere...

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Autores: Singh, Manish Kumar, Gómez-Puig, Marta, Sosvilla Rivero, Simón
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/161317
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/161317
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Risc (Economia)
Risc de crèdit
Bancs
Anàlisi vectorial
Països de la Unió Europea
Risk
Credit risk
Banks
Vector analysis
European Union countries
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Sumario:We investigate cross-sectional connectedness between Euro Area banking and sovereign risk. Average 'distance-to- default' based on all publicly listed banks headquartered in a particular country is used as an indicator of banking risk, while 10-year sovereign yield as the measure of sovereign risk. We find evidence of clustering among banks and sovereigns in peripheral and central countries. Except for peripheral countries banks, rest of the clusters are well isolated from each other.