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This paper explores the relationship between CAC 40 Index and other three indexes from Central and East European countries: PX Index, BUX Index and BET-C Index before and during the global crisis. In our investigation we employ daily values of the four indexes from two periods of time: a...
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The goal of this paper is to present an original and simple analysis aimed to understand why investing in capital markets can be very dangerous for “naive investors”. Stock markets are characterized by instability and subjected to external shocks. The probability of making money on them is...
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explained by wake-up-call contagion. Evidence on pure contagion however is very mixed and there are no insights into the … dynamics of these effects. As a contribution to fill this gap, we apply the canonical contagion framework of Pesaran and Pick … [2007], similar to Metiu [2012], for daily data from January 2002 until May 2013. By adapting the contagion function used by …
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This paper sets the background for the Special Issue of the Journal of Empirical Finance on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. It identifies the channel through which risks in the financial industry leaked into the public sector. It discusses the role of the bank rescues in igniting the...
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European banks are exposed to a substantial amount of risky sovereign debt. The "missing bank capital" resulting from the zero-risk weight exemption for European banks for European sovereign debt amplifies the co-movement between sovereign CDS spreads and facilitates cross-border...
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Using variance decompositions in vector auto-regressions (VARs) we model a high-dimensional network of European CDS spreads to assess the transmission of credit risk to the non-financial corporate sector. Our findings suggest a sectoral clustering in the CDS network, where financial institutions...
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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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The main objective of this paper is to detect the existence of financial contagion between the North American and … by means of the dynamic conditional correlation model (DCC). Once the DCC is estimated, the contagion between both … related to uncertainty in the markets. The results show that there was contagion between the United States and European …
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contagion of the U.S. financial crisis by constructing shock models for partially overlapping and non-overlapping markets. There … exists important bi-directional, yet asymmetric, interdependence and contagion in emerging markets, with important regional … variations. Interdependence is driven more by U.S. shocks, while contagion is driven more by emerging market shocks. Frontier …
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the Lehman Brothers in September 2008. We also test for the existence of contagion, and find no significant evidence of … contagion between equity markets in the US and the EMEAP region. On the other hand, intra-regional contagion is found to be more …
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