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Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences [PDF]
Two separate narratives have emerged in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. One interpretation speaks of private financial excess and the key role of the banking system in leveraging and deleveraging the economy. The other emphasizes the public sector balance sheet over the private and worries about the risks of lax fiscal policies.
Oscar Jorda +2 more
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Sovereign Credit Rating Mismatches [PDF]
We study the factors behind split ratings in sovereign credit ratings from different agencies, for the period 1980-2015. We employ random effects ordered and simple probit approaches to assess the explanatory power of different macroeconomic, government and financial variables. Our results show that structural balances and the existence of a default in
Afonso, António +2 more
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Our research aims to develop the regime switching Markov chain (RSMC), a discrete time Markov chain whose underlying regime is depending on a hidden Markov model, which express the dynamics of sovereign credit rating migration.
Sung Youl Oh +3 more
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The article investigates the state of the Eurozone countries’ financial security in the context of the world economic environment globalization. For the purpose of this, financial security is considered in terms of institutional, instrumental, and ...
Nataliia Goncharenko +3 more
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A critique on the proposed use of external sovereign credit ratings in Basel II [PDF]
This paper deals with the proposed use of sovereign credit ratings in the "Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy" (Basel II) and considers its potential effect on emerging markets financing.
Kräussl, Roman
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What are the driving factors behind the rise of spreads and CDSs of Euro-area sovereign bonds? A FAVAR model for Greece and Ireland [PDF]
This paper examines the underlying dynamics of selected euro-area sovereign bonds by employing a factor-augmenting vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model for the first time in the literature.
Apergis, Nicholas, Mamatzakis, Emmanuel
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Sovereign defaults: Information, investment and credit [PDF]
Abstract Why would a sovereign government, immune from bankruptcy procedures and with few assets that could be seized in the event of a default, ever repay foreign creditors? And, correspondingly, why do foreign creditors lend to sovereigns? This paper finds general conditions under which, even in the absence of sanctions, lending to sovereigns can ...
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Since the European debt crisis, the international banking industry and sovereign debt markets have experienced frequent crises. In particular, the dynamic complexity of the cross-contagion between tail risks in the international banking industry and ...
Gong Xiao-Li +3 more
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Sovereign Credit Rating Announcements and Baltic Stock Markets
This study examines whether sovereign credit rating announcements convey price relevant information to investors in Baltic stock markets, and tests the degree of anticipation and price reaction.
Asta Klimavičienė
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Do markets value ESG risks in sovereign credit curves?
This paper investigates the role of countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in sovereign CDS markets. Based on data for 60 countries from 2007 to 2017, we find that countries with superior ESG performance do not only show lower ...
Benjamin Hübel
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