Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229095 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2481
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper builds a database of idiosyncratic shocks (events) in global banks and car manufacturers (as representative of non-financial firms), and focuses on how these influence a number of macroeconomic and firm-specific variables in the short- and medium-term. We find that these shocks spawn large and persistent effects on the firms' own market valuation in terms of their equity prices, CDS spreads and expected default probabilities, while contagion across firms in both sectors is generally small. Surprisingly, we find that spill-overs of bank-related events are not significantly different from the car sector, suggesting that, at least from this perspective, banks are not special. We also investigate whether our events are "granular", i.e. influencing aggregate variables such as the VIX, equity indexes and key exchange rates, with mixed results.
Subjects: 
Global banks
contagion
event study
systemic risk
local projections
JEL: 
F3
G2
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-4398-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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