Relationships between Financial Sectors' CDS Spreads and Other Gauges of Risk: Did the Great Recession Change Them?. Issue 1 (20th March 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hammoudeh, Shawkat; Bhar, Ramaprasad; Liu, Tengdong
• Is Part Of: Financial review. Volume 48:Issue 1(2013)
• Page Start: 151
• Page End: 178
• Publication Date: 2013-03-20
• Subjects: CDS -- contagion -- great recession -- quantitative easing; C12 -- G12 -- G20; Finance -- United States -- Periodicals; Finance -- Periodicals; 332
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2012.00350.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0732-8516

Abstract

Abstract: The objectives are to discern how the three financial sectors' credit default swap (CDS) spreads interrelate to each other and with three other risks in terms of possible contagion, competition, interdependence and independence relations under the full sample and two subperiods: the 2007 Great Recession and the 2009 Recovery, and to assess the impact of QE1 on those risks in the second subperiod. The results indicate that the own and cross‐effects among the CDSs and the other risk measures are significant and mixed, but all in all contagion is dominant. The system has become less stable and less adjusting to the equilibrium in the first subperiod. QE1 in the second period decreases risks but increases inflationary expectations.