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Dynamic Responses of Major Equity Markets to the US Fear Index

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  • Bahram Adrangi

    (W.E. Nelson Professor of Financial Economics, University of Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR 97203, USA)

  • Arjun Chatrath

    (Shulte Professor of Finance, Pamplin School of Business, University of Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR 97203, USA)

  • Joseph Macri

    (Department of Economics Macquarie, University North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia)

  • Kambiz Raffiee

    (Foundation Professor of Economics, College of Business, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA)

Abstract

This study examines the reaction of four major equity markets of the world to the US equity market fear index, i.e., the Chicago Board of Trade Volatility Index (VIX). The VIX is designed to perform as a leading indicator of the volatility in equity markets. Our paper examines the daily data for the period of 2013 through 2018. We find that during this period there were three significant breaks in the data. Impulse responses from the structural vector autoregressive model estimation show that, in the first and second subperiods that cover from 6/2013 through 5/2016, equity market volatility in the US, UK, France, and Germany responded to structural shocks to the VIX. Nonlinear Granger causality tests confirm these findings. However, in the post Brexit-vote era, equity indices neither react to VIX structural shocks nor are caused by these shocks.

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  • Bahram Adrangi & Arjun Chatrath & Joseph Macri & Kambiz Raffiee, 2019. "Dynamic Responses of Major Equity Markets to the US Fear Index," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-23, September.
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