This paper examines the impact of sovereign credit rating change announcements on the CDS spreads of the event countries, and their spillover effects on other emerging economies' CDS premiums. In contrast to previous work, we find that positive events have a more consistent impact on sovereign...

This paper tests for contagion in emerging debt markets following Russia and Argentina's government defaults. Using techniques that have been previously suggested for contagion tests in stock markets we find that debt and stock markets respond differently to financial crises. Volatilities and...