Is sovereign risk related to the banking sector?

R. Erdem Aktug, Nayar, Nandkumar (Nandu) and Geraldo M. Vasconcellos

Global Finance Journal, 2013, vol. 24, issue 3, 222-249

Abstract: We examine whether the banking sector within a nation is related to sovereign risk. We hypothesize that more competitive and sophisticated financial systems are less prone to panics or bank runs, and consequently will be associated with superior sovereign credit ratings. Using Ordered Probit with Aggregate Time Effects methodology, our results show that banking sector characteristics such as concentration in the banking system, liquidity of bank assets, and size of financial system are significantly related to sovereign credit ratings. Since the use of these sovereign ratings is ubiquitous in international finance in varied applications such as determination of the cost of international borrowing by governments, international cost of capital for FDI, and others, the relationships identified in this paper have important public policy implications.

Keywords: G100; G150; G180; Sovereign credit ratings; Banking; Competition; Liquidity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2013.10.001

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