Assessment of the Impact of Trade Partner’s Cross-Country Sovereign Rating on the Financial Market of Selected Emerging Market Economies

Hesam Aldin Shahrivar () and Nwin Anefo Fru Asaba ()
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Hesam Aldin Shahrivar: Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics
Nwin Anefo Fru Asaba: Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics

Ege Academic Review, 2013, vol. 13, issue 2, 137-150

Abstract: In recent years, credit rating agencies such as Moody’s, S&P and Fitch either upgraded or downgraded countries when their economies were either blossoming or in a chaotic state. There is general consensus that credit rating agencies’ actions have triggered substantial financial unrestrained behaviour that resulted to the recent financial meltdown in 2008. To what extent does a sovereign ratings upgrade or downgrade of the major trade partners of an emerging market economy impact trade both domestically and internationally? This research is done using data from 10 emerging countries between 2000-2011to investigate the cross-country impact of either an upgrade or downgrade of an emerging economy’s principal trade partners on its financial market. In addition we analyse the impact prior and after the 2008 financial crisis. The ramifying impact on emerging economies due to sovereign grade change given a 10 days event window prior and after the event is investigated. We use both a pooled panel framework and event study methodology to assess the significance of the effect of rating changes.

Keywords: Contagion; emerging markets; event study; financial markets; pooled panel; sovereign credit rating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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