BRIC and the U.S. Financial Crisis: An Empirical Investigation of Stocks and Bonds Markets

Marcelo Bianconi, Joe Yoshino and Mariana O. Machado de Sousa

No 764, Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University from Department of Economics, Tufts University

Abstract: We examine empirical evidence of the behavior of stocks and bonds from BRIC nations using daily data from January 2003 to July 2010. We present unconditional and conditional emprical results depending upon a simple measure of U.S. financial stress. In the long term, BRIC bonds markets deviate much more from the U.S. financial measure than BRIC bonds and stocks deviate among themselves. Stocks and bonds returns correlations for Brazil and Russia are significantly large and negative. The own correlations are more important in determining the evloution of the conditional correlations relative to unexpected news. Dynamic conditional correlations between stock returns, bond returns and U.S. financial stress increase after the Lehman Brothers event in September 2008, except for bond returns in India.

Keywords: BRIC; stock-bond returns; conditional volatility; dynamic conditional correlation; financial crisis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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