Global Bonding: Do U.S. Bond and Equity Spillovers Dominate Global Financial Markets?
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Summary:
This paper uses a novel variant of identification through hetroscedacity to estimate spillovers across U.S., Euro area, Japanese, and UK government bond and equity markets in a vector autoregression. The results suggest that U.S. financial shocks reverberate around the world much more strongly than shocks from other regions, including the Euro area, while inward spillovers to the U.S. from elsewhere are minimal. There is also evidence of two-way spillovers between the UK and Euro area financial markets and spillovers from Europe to Japan. The results also suggest that the uncertainty about the direction of causality of contemporaneous correlations—an issue that other techniques cannot tackle—is the dominant source of uncertainty in the estimated impulse response functions.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2012/298
Subject:
Bond yields Financial institutions Financial markets Financial sector policy and analysis Securities markets Spillovers Stock markets Stocks
English
Publication Date:
December 20, 2012
ISBN/ISSN:
9781475586633/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2012298
Pages:
26
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