Linking Covid-19 epidemic and emerging market OAS: Evidence using dynamic copulas and Pareto distributions

Imdade Chitou, Gilles Dufrénot () and Julien Esposito
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Imdade Chitou: AMSE, Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille University, https://feg.univ-amu.fr/en
Julien Esposito: AMSE, Faculty of Economics and Management, Aix-Marseille University, https://feg.univ-amu.fr/en

No 2138, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: This paper investigates the dependence of the Option-Adjusted Spread (OAS) for several ICE BofA Emerging Markets Corporate Plus Indexes to the outbreaks of the Covid-19 viral pandemics between March 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021. We investigate whether the number of new cases, the reproduction rate, death rate and stringency policies have resulted in an increase/decrease in the spreads. We study the bivariate distributions of epidemiological indicators and spreads to investigate their concordance using dynamic copula analysis and estimate the Kendall rankcorrelation coefficient. We also investigate the effect of the epidemiological variables on the extreme values of the spreads by fitting a tail index derived from a Pareto type I distribution. We highlight the existence of correlations, robust to the type of copulas used (Clayton or Gumbel). Moreover, we show that the epidemiological variables explain well the extreme values of the spreads.

Keywords: COVID-19; corporate spreads; pandemics; emerging economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F37 G15 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2021-07
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