Modeling Financial Contagion using Copula

This article aims to test the hypothesis of contagion between the indices of financial markets from the United States into Brazil, Japan and the UK for the 2000 to 2009 period. Time varying copulas were used to capture the impact of the sub-prime crisis in the dependence between markets. The impleme...

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Main Authors: Pedro Luiz Valls Pereira, Ricardo Pires de Souza Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Finance 2011-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Finanças
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Online Access:http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rbfin/article/view/2942