The effect of credit derivatives usage on the risk of European Banks
It was generally believed by top regulators that credit derivatives make banks sounder. After the international financial crisis, the positive view of the role of credit risk transfer has changed and credit derivatives have been blamed as one of the responsible of the subprime credit crisis. Our pur...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repositorio: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/11183 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10272/11183 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Banking Sector Credit Derivatives Credit Default Swaps Bank Risk Z-Score Financial Credit Crisis Sector bancario Derivados de crédito Permuta de incumplimiento crediticio (CDS) Riesgo bancario Z-score Crisis de crédito financiera |
| Sumario: | It was generally believed by top regulators that credit derivatives make banks sounder. After the international financial crisis, the positive view of the role of credit risk transfer has changed and credit derivatives have been blamed as one of the responsible of the subprime credit crisis. Our purpose is to analyze whether the risk taken by European banks is affected by the use of credit derivatives. There are very few empirical works regarding this subjec and, in particular, in the European banking sector. We use as measures of risk the Z-score and other proxies of credit risk like the risk-weighted assets and non-performing loans (NPL) ratio. In summary, our results show that European banks that use credit derivatives for hedging experience an improvement in their level of financial stability, while those who opt for a speculative position test negative. Accordingly and based on these data, the cause of the current crisis in Europe could not be directly attributed to the use of credit derivatives |
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