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Sovereign Credit Ratings, Market Volatility, and Financial Gains

Afonso, António - 2014

, but downgrades increase stock and bond market volatility. Contagion is present, with sovereign rating announcements … for portfolio returns when taking into account sovereign credit ratings' information for volatility modelling, with …

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Foreign acquisition and credit risk : evidence from the U.S. CDS market

Yilmaz, Umit - 2016 - This draft: May 31, 2016

This paper empirically analyses the effect of foreign block acquisitions on the U.S. target firms' credit risk as captured by their CDS. The involvement of foreign investors leads to a significant increase in the target firms' CDS spreads. This effect is stronger when foreign owners are...

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European equity market contagion : an empirical application to Ireland's sovereign debt crisis

Corbet, Shaen; Twomey, Cian - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 10 (2015) 3, pp. 15-34

this crisis. During the Irish financial crisis from 2007 to 2010, strong contagion effects are uncovered between Irish … equity markets and the investigated European equity markets. The contagion effects are found to ease dramatically in the … intervention as a mechanism to mitigate and absorb contagion associated with state-specific financial crises and if possible …

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Measuring financial asset return and volatility spillovers, with application to global equity markets

Diebold, Francis X.; Yilmaz, Kamil - 2007

We provide a simple and intuitive measure of interdependence of asset returns and/or volatilities. In particular, we formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates study of both non-crisis and crisis episodes,...

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