Are the sovereign CDS premia sound estimators of the stock market returns? : evidence from the Eurozone

In this paper, we explore the interconnection and existing relationships between the Sovereign Credit Default Swaps (henceforth, CDS) and the stock markets of the main European countries. Thus, the goal of this paper is to test if the CDS premia can predict the stock market returns of the most relev...

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Autores: Navarrete Wic, Ana, Di Pietro, Filippo, Martín Marín, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/80830
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/80830
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CDS premia
Stock market index return
Granger causality test
Eurozone
Primas CDS
Rendimiento de índices de mercado
Test de causalidad de Granger
Eurozona
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Sumario:In this paper, we explore the interconnection and existing relationships between the Sovereign Credit Default Swaps (henceforth, CDS) and the stock markets of the main European countries. Thus, the goal of this paper is to test if the CDS premia can predict the stock market returns of the most relevant economies within the Eurozone, so that, they serve as advanced indicators like mechanisms of price transmission. For this purpose, we apply the Granger Causality test to analyze ten main European stock markets from 2004 to 2016 by using daily data. Our hypothesis is proved to work for the largest economies with liquid CDS markets, whereas the transmission mechanism between CDS and stock prices is not so evident for the smallest ones.