Download or read book Sovereigns and Financial Intermediaries Spillovers written by Mr.Hamid R Tabarraei and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the spillover effects between sovereigns and banks in a model with a heterogeneous banking system. An increase in sovereign’s default risk affects financial intermediaries through two channels in this model. First, banks’ funding costs might increase, inducing higher interest rates on loans and bonds and a cut back in these assets. Second, financial regulator’s risk-weighted asset framework would assign higher weights to lower quality assets, implying a portfolio rebalancing and more deleveraging. While capital adequacy requirements weaken the impact of shocks emerging from the real economy, they amplify the effect of shocks on banks’ balance sheets.