Asymmetric semi-volatility spillover effects in EMU stock markets
Francesco Giuseppe Caloia,
Andrea Cipollini and
Silvia Muzzioli
International Review of Financial Analysis, 2018, vol. 57, issue C, 221-230
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to quantify the strength and the direction of semi-volatility spillovers between five EMU stock markets over the 2000–2016 period. We use upside and downside semi-volatilities as proxies for downside risk and upside opportunities. In this way, we aim to complement the literature, which has focused mainly on the contemporaneous correlation between positive and negative returns, with the evidence of asymmetry also in semi-volatility transmission. For this purpose, we apply the Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) methodology, based on a generalized forecast error variance decomposition, to downside and upside realized semi-volatility series. While the analysis of Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) is based on a stationary VAR, we take into account the long-memory behaviour of the series, by using the multivariate extension of the HAR model (named VHAR model). Moreover, we cast light on how the choice of the normalization scheme can bias the net-spillover computation in a full sample as well as in a rolling sample analysis.
Keywords: Semi-volatility; Asymmetry; Forecast error variance decomposition; Spillover; VHAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C58 F30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2018.03.001
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