3 Issuing costs of state guaranteed bonds - Financial Risk and ...
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4 Impact <strong>of</strong> <strong>state</strong> <strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>bonds</strong> on bank lending, funding <strong>and</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>itability performance<br />
Currency considerations<br />
Bloomberg data<br />
Bloomberg report the value <strong>of</strong> a bond in the currency at which the bond is issued. Using monthly<br />
exchange rates obtained from the European Central Bank the values have all been converted to<br />
Euros.<br />
The remaining data from Bloomberg is reported in percentages or ratios, so there are no currency<br />
considerations associated with those data.<br />
BankScope data<br />
BankScope convert all values from the currency in which the annual report is filed into U.S. dollars<br />
using exchange rate data from the International Monetary Fund. BankScope use the prevailing<br />
exchange rate on the nearest date to the date <strong>of</strong> the close <strong>of</strong> the reports.<br />
For the purpose <strong>of</strong> this study, the dollar-values have been converted to Euros using average annual<br />
exchange rates obtained from the European Central Bank.<br />
Eurostat data<br />
Eurostat provide central bank interest rate, which is measured in percentages, <strong>and</strong> real GDP per<br />
capita, which is st<strong>and</strong>ardised using the Purchasing Power Parity. Thus, there is no need to<br />
exchange rate adjust the Eurostat data.<br />
Data frequency<br />
Bankscope provides data at the quarterly level whenever it is available, <strong>and</strong> as this is the desired<br />
data frequency, such data was reviewed.<br />
Unfortunately, data at the quarterly level is scarce. Of a total <strong>of</strong> 213 <strong>state</strong> <strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
comparison banks, an average <strong>of</strong> 32 observations was available per variable per quarter. Due to<br />
this, the analysis <strong>of</strong> bank outcomes uses annual data, which consists <strong>of</strong> an average <strong>of</strong> 140<br />
observations per variable per year. Annex 6 provides details <strong>of</strong> data availability at the quarterly<br />
<strong>and</strong> annual data.<br />
4.3 Descriptive analysis <strong>of</strong> the impact <strong>of</strong> the issue <strong>of</strong> <strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>bonds</strong><br />
on banks’ performance<br />
This section provides a brief analysis <strong>of</strong> the performance <strong>of</strong> banks having benefitted from a<br />
<strong>guaranteed</strong> bond issues relative to banks which issued non-<strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>bonds</strong> that would have<br />
qualified for the guarantee schemes.<br />
The sample <strong>of</strong> EU27 banks comprises 142 banks which, over the period 2008-2011, either issued<br />
only <strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>bonds</strong> or a mixture <strong>of</strong> <strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>and</strong> non-<strong>guaranteed</strong> <strong>bonds</strong> which would have<br />
qualified for a guarantee. In addition, there are 71 banks which did only issue non-<strong>guaranteed</strong><br />
<strong>bonds</strong> which would have qualified for a guarantee.<br />
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