Arbeitspapier

Government debt and banking fragility: The spreading of strategic uncertainty

This paper studies the interaction of government debt and financial markets. This interaction, termed a "diabolic loop", is driven by government choice to bail out banks and the resulting incentives for banks to hold government debt rather than self-insure through equity buffers. We highlight the role of bank equity issuance in determining whether the "diabolic loop" is a Nash Equilibrium of the interaction between banks and the government. When equity is issued, no diabolic loop exists. In equilibrium, banks' rational expectations of a bailout ensure that no equity is issued and the sovereign-bank loop is operative.

ISBN
978-92-899-3300-1
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2195

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Crises
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Thema
Sovereign default
Sovereign-banking loop

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cooper, Russell W.
Nikolov, Kalin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.2866/888615
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cooper, Russell W.
  • Nikolov, Kalin
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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