Mind the Gap: Disentangling Credit and Liquidity in Risk Spreads
Krista Schwarz
Review of Finance, 2019, vol. 23, issue 3, 557-597
Abstract:
Euro-area sovereign bond and interbank interest rate spreads spiked in the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis and the subsequent European Debt Crisis, substantially elevating financing costs. I use a model-free measure of market liquidity to precisely identify the relative contribution of credit versus liquidity to spreads in these episodes. In the Financial Crisis, liquidity is paramount, accounting for 36% of trough-to-peak widening, after controlling for credit. However, default risk becomes relatively more important to sovereign spreads in the Debt Crisis. Aggregate bond liquidity explains a substantial portion of interbank spreads throughout the sample.
Keywords: Market liquidity; Interbank credit; Money markets; Interest rates; Financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G01 G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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