In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of the credit crisis of 2008 by adopting coexceedance as a contagion measure. We assess the effect of news of governmental intervention and the collapse of firms during the period from 2007 to 2009 on the coexceedance. Our approach involves...

The majority of work in mortality modeling involves factor-based approaches, with little use of information on the determinants and interpretable risk factors of mortality. At the same time, in the demographic community, there has been a lack of research attention towards the study of mortality...