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The Effects of Macroeconomic News on Financial Crisis Contagion

Zhang Yi1, Hui Xiaofeng2, Wu Baoxiu1   

  1. 1. College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819;
    2. School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001
  • Received:2015-03-13 Online:2017-04-28 Published:2017-04-21

Abstract:

The inter-market contagion effect incurred by the global financial crisis has been a focus of financial study and it is found that information channel is one of the key channels that the crisis spread through. In this paper, we use the quantile regression technique along with coexceedance, a contagion measure, to assess the extent to which news events contribute to contagion in the stock markets during the crisis between 2007 and 2009. We include conditional volatility and investor sentiment as control variables in our model and use a two-stage approach to model the contagion effect. The empirical results indicate that the release of macroeconomic information indeed exacerbates contagion effect of the financial crisis and especially has a more significant influence for the lower tail risk diffusion.

Key words: macroeconomic news, financial crisis contagion, quantile regression, coexceedance