Currency downside risk, liquidity, and financial stability

We estimate volatility- and quantile (depreciation)-based spillovers across 20 global currencies against the US Dollar. In so doing, we reveal significant asymmetries in the propagation of risk across global currency markets. The quantile-based statistic reacts more significantly to events that have...

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Autores: Chuliá Soler, Helena, Fernández Mejía, Julián, Uribe Gil, Jorge Mario
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/127759
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/127759
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Canvi exterior
Risc (Economia)
Estabilitat
Liquiditat (Economia)
Gestió financera
Foreign exchange
Risk
Stability
Liquidity (Economics)
Financial management
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Resumo:We estimate volatility- and quantile (depreciation)-based spillovers across 20 global currencies against the US Dollar. In so doing, we reveal significant asymmetries in the propagation of risk across global currency markets. The quantile-based statistic reacts more significantly to events that have a sizable impact on FX markets (e.g. Brexit vote and the FX crash following the subprime crisis), which are missed by the volatility-based statistic. As such, our tail-spillover estimates constitute a new financial stability index for the FX market. This index has the advantages of being easy to build, of not requiring intraday data and of being more informative about currency crises and pressures than traditional spillover statistics based on volatilities. Finally, we also document differences in the relation between liquidity and volatility (quantile) spillovers.