Bad Sovereign or Bad Balance Sheets? Euro Interbank Market Fragmentation and Monetary Policy, 2011-2015

50 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2018

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Silvia Gabrieli

Banque de France

Claire Labonne

Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution - Banque de France

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Date Written: August 1, 2018

Abstract

We measure the relative role of sovereign-dependence risk and balance sheet (credit) risk in euro area interbank market fragmentation from 2011 to 2015. We combine bank-to-bank loan data with detailed supervisory information on banks’ cross-border and cross-sector exposures. We study the impact of the credit risk on banks’ balance sheets on their access to, and the price paid for, interbank liquidity, controlling for sovereign-dependence risk and lenders’ liquidity shocks. We find that (i) high non-performing loan ratios on the GIIPS portfolio hinder banks’ access to the interbank market throughout the sample period; (ii) large sovereign bond holdings are priced in interbank rates from mid-2011 until the announcement of the OMT; (iii) the OMT was successful in closing this channel of cross-border shock transmission; it reduced sovereign dependence and balance sheet fragmentation alike.

Keywords: Interbank market, credit risk, fragmentation, sovereign risk, country risk, credit rationing, market discipline

JEL Classification: G01, E43, E58, G15, G21

Suggested Citation

Gabrieli, Silvia and Labonne, Claire, Bad Sovereign or Bad Balance Sheets? Euro Interbank Market Fragmentation and Monetary Policy, 2011-2015 (August 1, 2018). Banque de France Working Paper No. 687, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3224417 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3224417

Silvia Gabrieli (Contact Author)

Banque de France ( email )

Paris
France

Claire Labonne

Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution - Banque de France ( email )

61, rue Taitbout
Paris, 75436
France

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