Correlations in emerging market bonds: The role of local and global factors

Irina Bunda (), A. Javier Hamann () and Subir Lall ()

Emerging Markets Review, 2009, vol. 10, issue 2, 67-96

Abstract: This paper empirically assesses co-movements in emerging market bond returns and disentangles the roles of external and domestic factors during episodes of heightened market volatility. The conceptual framework, set in the context of asset allocation, allows us to describe the channels through which shocks originating in a particular emerging or mature market are transmitted across countries and markets. We show that a simple measure of cross-country correlations, when presented together with the more commonly used average correlation coefficient, can be more informative during episodes of heightened market volatility. Data for the period 1997-2008 are analysed for evidence of true contagion and common external shocks.

Keywords: Emerging; bond; markets; International; financial; crises; Excess; comovement; Contagion; Public; debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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