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Asymmetric convergence in US financial credit default swap sector index markets
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Asymmetric convergence in US financial credit default swap sector index markets

Li-Hsueh Chen, Shawkat Hammoudeh and Yuan Yuan
The Quarterly review of economics and finance, v 51(4), pp 408-418
2011

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Asymmetric adjustment Credit default swaps Narrowings Threshold Widenings
This study examines the asymmetric adjustments to the long-run equilibrium for credit default swap (CDS) sector indexes of three financial sectors – banking, financial services and insurance – in the presence of a threshold effect. The results of the momentum-threshold autoregression (M-TAR) models demonstrate that asymmetric cointegration exists for all pairs comprised of those three CDS indexes. The speeds of adjustment in the long-run are much higher in the case of adjustments from below the threshold than from above for all the pairs. The estimates of The MTAR-VEC models suggest that the dual CDS index return in each sector pair participates in the adjustment to equilibrium in the short- and long-run taken together. But in the long-run alone, only one of the two spreads in each pair participates. Policy implications are also provided.

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