Spillover Dynamics for Systemic Risk Measurement using Spatial Financial Time Series Models

Francisco Blasques (), Siem Jan Koopman, Andre Lucas and Julia Schaumburg

No 14-107/III, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: This discussion paper led to a publication in the Journal of Econometrics .

We introduce a new model for time-varying spatial dependence. The model extends the well-known static spatial lag model. All parameters can be estimated conveniently by maximum likelihood. We establish the theoretical properties of the model and show that the maximum likelihood estimator for the static parameters is consistent and asymptotically normal. We also study the information theoretic optimality of the updating steps for the time-varying spatial dependence parameter. We adopt the model to empirically investigate the spatial dependence between eight European sovereign CDS spreads over the period 2009--2014, which includes the European sovereign debt crisis. We construct our spatial weight matrix using cross-border lending data and include country-specific and Europe-wide risk factors as controls. We find a high, time-varying degree of spatial spillovers in the sovereign CDS spread data. There is a downturn in spatial dependence after the first half of 2012, which is consistent with policy measures taken by the European Central Bank. The findings are robust to a wide range of alternative model specifications.

Keywords: Spatial correlation; time-varying parameters; systemic risk; European debt crisis; generalized autoregressive score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C32 C53 E17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08-14
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