Intraday dynamics of euro area sovereign credit risk contagion

Lubos Komarek () and Kristyna Ters

No 573, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: We examine the role of the CDS and bond markets during and before the recent euro area sovereign debt crisis as transmission channels for credit risk contagion between sovereign entities. We analyse an intraday dataset for GIIPS countries as well as Germany, France and central European countries. Our findings suggest that, prior to the crisis, the CDS and bond markets were similarly important in the transmission of sovereign risk contagion, but that the importance of the bond market waned during the crisis. We find flight-to-safety effects during the crisis in the German bond market that are not present in the pre-crisis sample. Our estimated sovereign risk contagion was greater during the crisis, with an average timeline of one to two hours in GIIPS countries. By using an exogenous macroeconomic news shock, we can show that, during the crisis period, increased credit risk was not related to economic fundamentals. Further, we find that central European countries were not affected by sovereign credit risk contagion, independent of their debt level and currency.

Keywords: sovereign credit risk; credit default swaps; contagion; spillover; sovereign debt crisis; panel VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2016-07
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Working Paper: Intraday Dynamics of Euro Area Sovereign Credit Risk Contagion (2016)
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