Research in international business and finance
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C58, G15, G17
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Rocío Clara Alexandra Mora-Quiñones, Antonio José Orozco-Gallo, Dora Alicia Mora-Pérez
Constanza Martínez-Ventura, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra
Leonardo Fabio Morales, Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía, Didier Hermida-Giraldo, Francisco Javier Lasso-Valderrama, José Pulido
This paper investigates the tail-dependence structure of emerging market sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) and the Global Financial Cycle (GFC) across eleven emerging markets. Using Copula-CoVaR estimations, we find significant tail-dependence between the GFC, represented by the VIX Volatility Index, and emerging market CDS. These results are essential in the context of distressed global financial markets. Furthermore, our results help evaluate CDS dynamics and provide a more suitable metric to analyze sovereign risk beyond the traditional CoVaR. Moreover, we present additional evidence supporting the importance of the global financial cycle in sovereign risk dynamics in different episodes from 2004 to 2022.