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Bailouts, Moral Hazard and Banks’ Home Bias for Sovereign Debt

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  • Gaetano Gaballo

    (Banque de France)

  • Ariel Zetlin-Jones

    (Tepper School of Business)

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This paper shows that an increase in banks’ holdings of domestic sovereign debt decreases the ability of domestic sovereigns to successfully enact bailouts. When sovereigns finance bailouts with newly issued debt and the price of sovereign debt is sensitive to unanticipated debt issues, then bailouts dilute the value of banks’ sovereign debt holdings rendering bailouts less effective. We explore this feedback mechanism in a model of financial intermediation in which banks are subject to managerial moral hazard and ex ante optimality requires lenders to commit to ex post inefficient bank liquidations. A benevolent sovereign may desire to enact bailouts to prevent such liquidations thereby neutralizing lenders’ commitment. In this context, home bias for sovereign debt may arise as a mechanism to deter bailouts and restore lenders’ commitment.

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  • Gaetano Gaballo & Ariel Zetlin-Jones, 2016. "Bailouts, Moral Hazard and Banks’ Home Bias for Sovereign Debt," Working Papers 16, European Stability Mechanism.
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    Keywords

    Bailout; Sovereign debt; Home bias; Time inconsistency; Commitment; Macroprudential regulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination

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