We investigate default clusters and reveal credit risk contagion in a data set with over four million German auto loans. First, we show that default clusters cannot be attributed to loan-specific, borrower-specific, asset-specific and macroeconomic effects alone. In a second step, we model...

The paper develops an easy-to-apply test for contagion. In order to address the main challenge of any contagion test, that of endogeneity, the testing is conducted in the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework where we assume the reduced form errors follow a mixed-normal distribution....

A major topic in empirical finance is correlation of default risk. Correlations are the main drivers for credit risk on a portfolio basis and for banks' capital requirements under the New Basel Accord. However, empirical evidence on the magnitude of correlations is rather scarce, mainly due to...

The present study makes an attempt to investigate the dynamics of contagion and spillover of volatility amongst stock markets of five economies which include three developed nations; US , UK and Japan and two Asian emerging economies viz. India and China The period of study is eleven years; Jan...

A growing literature explores structural fund sector vulnerabilities in the form of fire sale externalities. In this paper, we uncover a previously neglected, yet very important source of fund sector vulnerabilities that arises because funds increasingly invest in other funds. Such fund...

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...