Sovereign default spreads drove European bank risk exposures during crisis

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During the European debt crisis, the sovereign default spread was "the factor" driving heightened risk in the banking sector, according to a Federal Reserve discussion paper.

The Systemic Risk of European Banks During the Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises by Lamont Black, Ricardo Correa, Xin Huang, and Hao Zhou, proposes a 'hypothetical distress insurance premium' as a measure of systemic risk at European banks, integrating characteristics such as bank size, default probability and

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