This paper addresses how creditor protection affects the volatility of stock market prices. Credit protection reduces … volatility in 40 countries over the period from 1984 to 2004. Estimated probabilities of a liquidity crisis are used as a proxy … price volatility …

This paper addresses how creditor protection affects the volatility of stock market prices. Credit protection reduces … volatility in 40 countries over the period from 1984 to 2004. Estimated probabilities of a liquidity crisis are used as a proxy … price volatility …

The primary purpose of the study is to identify and measure the properties of asset bubbles, volatility clustering, and … empirical methods; the LPPL model to identify asset bubbles, the DCC-GARCH model to measure volatility clustering, and the … Diebold-Yilmaz volatility spillover index to measure the level of financial contagion. We provide robust evidence that during …

volatility of aggregate shocks impinging on the domestic economy. The implications of this approach are analyzed in a model with … two types of credit market imperfections: domestic banks borrow at a premium on world capital markets, and domestic … revenue lost in adverse states of nature. Higher volatility of producers' productivity shocks increases both financial spreads …

This paper interprets contagion effects as an increase in the volatility of aggregate shocks impinging on the domestic … banks borrow at a premium on world capital markets, and domestic producers (whose demand for credit results from working … capital needs) borrow at a premium from domestic banks. Higher volatility of producers’ productivity shocks increases both …