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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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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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time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide evidence in favour of energy contagion, in term of significantly higher …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978741
existence of financial contagion during this crisis, defined as the international transmission of country-specific shocks beyond … the normal channels of financial interdependence. Since contagion relates purely to country-specific shocks, we combine … the standard contagion test of Favero and Giavazzi (2002) with an innovative narrative approach to separate out global and …
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existence of financial contagion during this crisis, defined as the international transmission of country-specific shocks beyond … the normal channels of financial interdependence. Since contagion relates purely to country-specific shocks, we combine … the standard contagion test of Favero and Giavazzi (2002) with a narrative approach to separate out global and euro area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193779
This article analyzes the phenomenon of financial integration on both the theoretical and empirical levels, focusing primarily on assessing the impacts of the current financial crisis. In the theoretical section we first look at the definition of financial integration and summarize the benefits...
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This article empirically analyzes the phenomenon of financial integration, focusing primarily on assessing the impacts of the current financial crisis. We start our analysis with an overview of cost-benefit considerations associated with the process of financial integration. We go on to examine...
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of trading in the sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) market, using weekly data for single-name sovereign CDS from October 2008 to September 2015. We describe the anatomy of the sovereign CDS market, derive a law of motion for gross...
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positive shocks, which creates moral hazard and is best explained by a “too-systemic-to-fail” effect. The contagion effects are … economically significant contagion channel for tail spread increases …
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