Park, Sungyong; Wang, Wendun; Huang, Naijing - 2015 - This version: March 25, 2015
Regarding the asymmetric and leptokurtic behavior of financial data, we propose a new contagion test in the quantile regression framework that is robust to model misspecification. Unlike conventional correlation-based tests, the proposed quantile contagion test allows us to investigate the stock...