Download This PaperEndogenous Crisis Dating and Contagion Using Smooth Transition Structural GARCH
26 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2012 Last revised: 10 Apr 2015
Date Written: April 8, 2015
Abstract
Detecting contagion during financial crises requires the demarcation of crisis periods. We develop a method for endogenously dating both the start and finish of crises, along with measuring contagion effects. Identification is achieved by coupling smooth transition functions with structural GARCH. In an application to US equity, bond and REITs returns for 2001-2010, we identify four phases; a pre-crisis period to July 2007, two phases of crisis up to and following October 2008, and a post-crisis phase from mid-May 2009. We detect significant contagion during the crisis and find evidence that the post-crisis period has not returned to pre-crisis relations.
Keywords: Contagion, Structural GARCH, Global Financial Crisis
JEL Classification: G01, C51
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Financial Research Network (FIRN) (deceased)
Minxian Yang
UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics ( email )
School of Economics
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW NSW 2052
Australia
93853353 (Phone)
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