Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain

Using a unique database, this paper examines the interconnection among stress indicators of the Spanish financial markets during the period of January 1999 to April 2021, applying both the connectedness framework and the Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive connectedness approach. Our result...

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Autores principales: Julián Andrada-Félix, Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4ed82bfeac9d4ba1be6fd21e86b49cfd2021-11-25T18:08:34ZStress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain10.3390/jrfm141105271911-80741911-8066https://doaj.org/article/4ed82bfeac9d4ba1be6fd21e86b49cfd2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/11/527https://doaj.org/toc/1911-8066https://doaj.org/toc/1911-8074Using a unique database, this paper examines the interconnection among stress indicators of the Spanish financial markets during the period of January 1999 to April 2021, applying both the connectedness framework and the Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive connectedness approach. Our results suggest that 15.67% of the total variance of forecast errors was explained by shocks across the six financial market stress indices examined, indicating that the remaining 84.33% of variation was due to idiosyncratic shocks. Nevertheless, we find that stress connectedness varies over time, with a surge during periods of increasing economic and financial instability, mainly driven by high levels of pandemic and economy policy uncertainty and real economy worsening. Financial intermediaries were the main generators of stress during three out of four recent major financial crises in Spain, while their role as stress transmitters to other markets has been reduced since the onset of the COVID-19 health crisis. Our results also indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak represents a relevant event in the transmission of stress among all market segments.Julián Andrada-FélixAdrian Fernandez-PerezSimón Sosvilla-RiveroMDPI AGarticlefinancial marketsfinancial stress indexsystemic riskconnectednesstime-varying parametersCOVID-19Risk in industry. Risk managementHD61FinanceHG1-9999ENJournal of Risk and Financial Management, Vol 14, Iss 527, p 527 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic financial markets
financial stress index
systemic risk
connectedness
time-varying parameters
COVID-19
Risk in industry. Risk management
HD61
Finance
HG1-9999
spellingShingle financial markets
financial stress index
systemic risk
connectedness
time-varying parameters
COVID-19
Risk in industry. Risk management
HD61
Finance
HG1-9999
Julián Andrada-Félix
Adrian Fernandez-Perez
Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain
description Using a unique database, this paper examines the interconnection among stress indicators of the Spanish financial markets during the period of January 1999 to April 2021, applying both the connectedness framework and the Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive connectedness approach. Our results suggest that 15.67% of the total variance of forecast errors was explained by shocks across the six financial market stress indices examined, indicating that the remaining 84.33% of variation was due to idiosyncratic shocks. Nevertheless, we find that stress connectedness varies over time, with a surge during periods of increasing economic and financial instability, mainly driven by high levels of pandemic and economy policy uncertainty and real economy worsening. Financial intermediaries were the main generators of stress during three out of four recent major financial crises in Spain, while their role as stress transmitters to other markets has been reduced since the onset of the COVID-19 health crisis. Our results also indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak represents a relevant event in the transmission of stress among all market segments.
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author Julián Andrada-Félix
Adrian Fernandez-Perez
Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
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Adrian Fernandez-Perez
Simón Sosvilla-Rivero
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title Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain
title_short Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain
title_full Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain
title_fullStr Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain
title_full_unstemmed Stress Spillovers among Financial Markets: Evidence from Spain
title_sort stress spillovers among financial markets: evidence from spain
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2021
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