Authors:

  • Victoria Ivashina

Excerpt

Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. Victoria Ivashina , April 25, 2014, Paper. "By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky (as measured by CDS spreads)..." Link Verified October 11, 2014