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Systemic Sovereign Risk and Asset Prices: Evidence from the CDS Market, Stressed European Economies and Nonlinear Causality Tests

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  • Nicholas Apergis

    (Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

  • Ahdi Noomen Ajmi

    (College of Science and Humanities in Slayel, Salman bin Abdulaziz University, KSA
    ESC de Tunis, Manouba University, Tunisia
    IPAG Lab, IPAG Business School, Paris)

Abstract

This empirical study attempts to measure the direction of effects related to systemic sovereign risk (i.e. proxied by CDS prices) on a number of asset prices in four heavily stressed European economies: Greece, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The paper is innovative in terms of addressing the drawbacks of linear causality by making use of both the Sato et al. (2007) methodological approach, which introduces time-varying vector autoregressive modeling, as well as the Hatemi-J (2012) asymmetric causality test that explicitly introduces asymmetries in causality. The empirical findings suggest that the presence of CDS derivatives aggravated the prices in a number of assets. These results are associated with the overall negative environment in economies that experienced the sovereign debt crisis and had to go through a dramatic reduction in market liquidity as well as strict consolidation programs that led these markets to crash. The findings have important implications for the ongoing debate about how to reform the financial system so as to mitigate systemic risk in the future.

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  • Nicholas Apergis & Ahdi Noomen Ajmi, 2015. "Systemic Sovereign Risk and Asset Prices: Evidence from the CDS Market, Stressed European Economies and Nonlinear Causality Tests," Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver), Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, vol. 65(2), pages 106-126, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:fau:fauart:v:65:y:2015:i:2:p:127-143
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    CDS prices; asset prices; economies in sovereign debt crisis;
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    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • C30 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - General

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