Default risk increases substantially during financial stress times due to mainly the two reasons: volatility clustering and investors’ desire protect themselves from such in volatility. It manifested aftermath of Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 with unpleasant outcomes many bankruptcies severe distress. To account for these features, we adapted structural credit approach include both time-var...

This paper deals with heterogeneous autoregressive models of realized volatility (HAR-RV models) on high-frequency data of stock indices in the USA. Its aim is to capture the behavior of three groups of market participants trading on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and assess their role in predicting the daily realized volatility. The benefits of this work lies mainly in the application of he...

This paper looks at the relationship between negative news and stock markets in times of global crisis, such as the 2008/2009 period. We analysed one year of front page banner headlines of three financial newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Il Sole24ore to examine the influence of bad news both on stock market volatility and dynamic correlation. Our results show that the p...

We study the behavior of credit spreads and their link to economic growth during financial crises. Our main finding is that the recessions that surround financial crises are longer and deeper than the recessions surrounding non-financial crises. The slow recovery from the 2008 crisis is in keeping with historical experience of recoveries from financial crises. We reach this conclusion by examin...