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Title: | Increasing contingent guarantees: The asymmetrical effect on sovereign risk of different government interventions |
Author: | Singh, Manish Kumar Gómez-Puig, Marta Sosvilla Rivero, Simón |
Keywords: | Risc de crèdit Anàlisi financera Política fiscal Zona euro Credit risk Investment analysis Fiscal policy Eurozone |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IR19/14] |
Abstract: | Government interventions to support the financial institutions fall into two broad categories: direct interventions (which immediately increase the government's financing need) and off- balance sheet contingent guarantees (which have no immediate impact on debt but will add to government debt as and when a loss materializes). If financial sector losses are independent of sovereign's own risk, all else being equal, they must have the same effect on the sovereign's risk profile, even though they impact the government balance sheet differently. In this paper, we study the nature and effectiveness of a government's interventions on its own risk profile. Our findings suggest that direct assistance has a significantly large effect on sovereign risk, while the effect of contingent guarantees is statistically not significant, being significant only for the euro area founders. Controlling for government interventions, we also find that GDP, perceived government effectiveness, economic sentiment, size of the financial sector, and membership of the euro area reduce the sovereign risk, while asset concentration within financial sector, unemployment and inflation have an adverse effect. Our findings support Bresciani and Cossaro (2016)'s claim that during the sovereign debt crisis, governments undertook complex financial operations to change the composition of their interventions towards contingent guarantees. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2019/201914.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2019, IR19/14 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/142329 |
Appears in Collections: | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) |
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