Solvency and wholesale funding cost interactions at UK banks

Kieran Dent (kieran.dent@bankofengland.co.uk), Sinem Hacioglu Hoke and Apostolos Panagiotopoulos
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Kieran Dent: Bank of England, Postal: Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH

No 681, Bank of England working papers from Bank of England

Abstract: We study the interaction between solvency and funding costs at UK banks. We use the market-based leverage ratio as a proxy for market participants’ perceptions of bank solvency. We investigate the impact that changes in this ratio have on banks’ CDS premia, which are a proxy for their marginal cost of wholesale funding. We find that a negative shock to market participants’ perception of banks’ solvency leads to an increase in banks’ marginal cost of wholesale funding. We find evidence that this negative relationship is nonlinear, ie the responsiveness of funding costs to a shock to solvency is greater at lower initial levels of solvency.

Keywords: Solvency; funding cost; leverage ratio; CDS premia; panel threshold model; panel smooth transition model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2017-10-13
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