Essays on financial contagion

Identifier:  TDX:1309

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1309

Authors:  Urbina Calero, Jilber Andrés

Abstract:
This thesis analyses the transmission channel of the recent 2008 Global Financial Crisis by testing whether contagion occurred, the absent of contagion implies that crisis spills over via interdependence. This thesis consists of seven closely related chapters, all of them are devoted to analyze the existence of contagion in stock markets. The main conclusion from this work is that markets remains highly linked before and after crises, therefore, contagion is not the main transmission channel. Daily estimations on six aggregate stock market returns are used in this study covering from June 2003 to December 2012. The main focus of the research is on conditional comovements, namely, conditional correlations and conditional co-skewness.