The Effect of Possible EU Diversification Requirements on the Risk of Banks’ Sovereign Bond Portfolios
Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the major European banks. First, we capture the dependence structure of European countries' sovereign risks and identify the common factors driving European sovereign CDS spreads by means of an independent component analysis. We then analyze the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and discuss the role of “home bias”, i.e., the tendency of banks to concentrate their sovereign bond holdings in their domicile country. Finally, we evaluate the effect of diversification requirements on the tail risk of sovereign bond portfolios and quantify the system-wide losses in the presence of fire-sales. Under our assumptions about how banks respond to the new requirements, demanding that banks modify their holdings to increase their portfolio diversification may mitigate fire-sale externalities, but may be ineffective in reducing portfolio risk, including tail risk
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2019
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Authors: | Craig, Ben R. |
Other Persons: | Giuzio, Margherita (contributor) ; Paterlini, Sandra (contributor) |
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[2019]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Portfolio-Management | Portfolio selection | Öffentliche Anleihe | Public bond | Bankrisiko | Bank risk | Bank | Kreditrisiko | Credit risk | Diversifikation | Diversification | Welt | World |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (48 p) |
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Series: | ESRB Working Paper ; No. 89 / March 2019 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 20, 2019 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.2976060 [DOI] |
Classification: | G01 - Financial Crises ; G11 - Portfolio Choice ; G21 - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages ; G28 - Government Policy and Regulation |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901818