01808cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF019074 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781498300704 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Tabarraei, Hamid. Sovereigns and Financial Intermediaries Spillovers / Hamid Tabarraei, Abdelaziz Rouabah, Olivier Pierrard. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (33 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet Pierrard, Olivier. Rouabah, Abdelaziz. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/043 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/043/001.2019.issue-043-en.xml IMF e-Library