A Comparison of Spillover Effects before, during and after the 2008 Financial Crisis

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Journal Article
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University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance
University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics
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2014
Authors
Rea, A.
Rea, W.
Marco Reale, M.
Scarrott, C.
Abstract

This paper applies graphical modelling to the S&P 500, Nikkei 225 and FTSE 100 stock market indices to trace the spillover of returns and volatility between these three major world stock market indices before, during and after the 2008 financial crisis. We find that the depth of market integration changed significantly between the pre-crisis period and the crisis and post-crisis period. Graphical models of both return and volatility spillovers are presented for each period. We conclude that graphical models are a useful tool in the analysis of multivariate time series where tracing the flow of causality is important.

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The paper has been accepted for publication in  March 2014.<br />
Citation
Rea, A., Rea, W., Marco Reale, M., Scarrott, C. (2014) A Comparison of Spillover Effects before, during and after the 2008 Financial Crisis. Applied Mathematics, 5(4), pp. 601-614.
Keywords
Time Series Analysis, Volatility spillover, graphical modelling, financial crisis, causality
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Fields of Research::38 - Economics::3801 - Applied economics::380107 - Financial economics
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