This paper employs the quantile autoregressive (QAR) model to examine the forecasting relationship between stock volatility and crude oil volatility. We firstly employ the sup-Wald test to evaluate Granger causality across various quantile levels, which provides valuable information in...

We study how debt market frictions that constrain the ability of firms to buffer a tightening in bank credit supply affect corporate yield spreads. We focus on the frictions driven by the regional availability of debt financing. We provide evidence of a strong regional segmentation in the debt...