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Measuring sovereign contagion in Europe

Caporin, Massimiliano; Pelizzon, Loriana; Ravazzolo, Francesco; Rigobon, Roberto
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2014-06-24
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the sovereign risk contagion using credit default swaps (CDS) and bond

premiums for the major eurozone countries. By emphasizing several econometric approaches

(nonlinear regression, quantile regression and Bayesian quantile regression with heteroskedasticity) we show that propagation of shocks in Europe's CDS has been remarkably constant for

the period 2008-2011 even though a significant part of the sample periphery countries have

been extremely affected by their sovereign debt and fiscal situations. Thus, the integration

among the different eurozone countries is stable, and the risk spillover among these countries

is not affected by the size of the shock, implying that so far contagion has remained subdue.

Results for the CDS sample are confirmed by examining bond spreads. However, the analysis

of bond data shows that there is a change in the intensity of the propagation of shocks in the

2003-2006 pre-crisis period and the 2008-2011 post-Lehman one, but the coefficients actually

go down, not up! All the increases in correlation we have witnessed over the last years come

from larger shocks and the heteroskedasticity in the data, not from similar shocks propagated

with higher intensity across Europe. This is the first paper, to our knowledge, where a Bayesian

quantile regression approach is used to measure contagion. This methodology is particularly

well-suited to deal with nonlinear and unstable transmission mechanisms.
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CAMP Working Paper Series;4/2012

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