This study examines the dynamic response of credit spread (CS) to corporate profit growth (CP) shock. Using the bivariate VAR model to analyze quarterly data from 1952Q1 to 2012Q4, the results show that credit spread drops immediately following the positive shock to corporate profit growth, and...

This study investigates the dynamic effect of credit spread on the performance of banking sector. Based on the analysis of monthly data from 1941M2 to 2013M6, the results indicate that return on the S&P 500 Banks Index 4010 significantly drops following credit spread shock. The decline becomes...

This study examines the dynamics between short interest and credit spread. Based on the analysis of monthly data from 1931M6 to 2012M12, the results show that credit spread significantly jumps following the shock to the NYSE short-interest ratio. The Granger causality Wald test indicates a...

This study investigates how equity trading activity dynamically responds to credit spread shock. Based on the analysis of monthly data from 1925M1 to 2013M7, equity trading activity, using share volume turnover as a proxy, significantly drops following the shock to credit spread. The results...

This study examines the dynamic response of the S&P 500 price-to-earnings ratio (PE) to credit spread (CS) shock and causal direction between these two variables. Based on the analysis of monthly data from 1919M1 to 2013M8, the VAR results reveal that PE significantly jumps immediately following...

This study investigates the dynamic response of credit spread (CS) to S&P 500 dividend yield (DY) shock. Based on the analysis of monthly data from 1919M1 to 2013M8, the VAR results show that credit spread significantly rises immediately following shock to the S&P 500 dividend yield. The results...

This study investigates how credit spread dynamically responds to the change in aggregate Tobin's q ratio. The VAR results from analyzing quarterly data from 1951 Q4 to 2012 Q4 reveal that credit spread drops significantly following the shock to the change in aggregate Tobin's q ratio. There is...

Based theoretically and empirically on the international transmission and spill-over, this study is set up to examine how returns on three groups (developed, emerging and frontier) of global stock markets respond to the U.S. credit spread shock. The Granger-causality is computed to determine the...