Sovereigns and Financial Intermediaries Spillovers /

We examine the spillover effects between sovereigns and banks in a model with a heterogeneous banking system. An increase in sovereign's default risk affects financial intermediaries through two channels in this model. First, banks' funding costs might increase, inducing higher interest ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tabarraei, Hamid
Other Authors: Pierrard, Olivier, Rouabah, Abdelaziz
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/043
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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Summary:We examine the spillover effects between sovereigns and banks in a model with a heterogeneous banking system. An increase in sovereign's default risk affects financial intermediaries through two channels in this model. First, banks' funding costs might increase, inducing higher interest rates on loans and bonds and a cut back in these assets. Second, financial regulator's risk-weighted asset framework would assign higher weights to lower quality assets, implying a portfolio rebalancing and more deleveraging. While capital adequacy requirements weaken the impact of shocks emerging from the real economy, they amplify the effect of shocks on banks' balance sheets.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (33 pages)
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ISSN:1018-5941
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