Creditor Protection, Contagion, and Stock Market Price Volatility

39 Pages Posted: 5 Jun 2008

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Galina Hale

University of California, Santa Cruz

Assaf Razin

Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Hui Tong

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Date Written: January 2008

Abstract

We study a mechanism through which strong creditor protection affect positively the level, and negatively the volatility, of the aggregate stock market price. In a Tobin-q model with liquidity and productivity shocks, two channels are at work: (1) Creditor protection raises the stock value in a credit-constraint regime; (2) Creditor protection lowers the probability of the credit crunch. We confront the key predictions of the model to a panel of 40 countries over the period from 1984 to 2004. We find support to the hypothesis that creditor protection have a positive effect on the level, and a negative effect of the volatility, of stock prices, via the negative effect of the creditor protection on the probability of credit crunch.

Keywords: Credit crunch, Probit estimation, Tobin-q

JEL Classification: E1, G2

Suggested Citation

Hale, Galina and Razin, Assaf and Tong, Hui, Creditor Protection, Contagion, and Stock Market Price Volatility (January 2008). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6658, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1140587

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