Asymmetric Connectedness of Stocks: How Does Bad and Good Volatility Spill over the U.S. Stock Market?

36 Pages Posted: 6 Aug 2013 Last revised: 29 Oct 2018

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Jozef Baruník

Charles University in Prague - Department of Economics; Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague

Evžen Kočenda

Charles University in Prague - Institute of Economic Studies; Institute of Information Theory and Automation (Czech Academy of Sciences) - Department of Econometrics; CESifo; University of Regensburg - Institute for East and Southeast European Studies; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The William Davidson Institute

Lukas Vacha

Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Charles University in Prague - Department of Economics

Date Written: August 6, 2013

Abstract

In this paper, we examine how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility. Using data covering most liquid U.S. stocks in seven sectors, we provide ample evidence of the asymmetric connectedness of stocks at the disaggregate level. Moreover, the spillovers of bad and good volatility are transmitted at different magnitudes that sizably change over time in different sectors. While negative spillovers are often of substantial magnitudes, they do not strictly dominate positive spillovers. We find that the overall intra-market connectedness of U.S. stocks increased substantially during the recent financial crisis.

Keywords: Volatility, Spillovers, Semivariance, Asymmetric effects, Financial markets

JEL Classification: C18, C58, G15

Suggested Citation

Barunik, Jozef and Kocenda, Evzen and Vacha, Lukas, Asymmetric Connectedness of Stocks: How Does Bad and Good Volatility Spill over the U.S. Stock Market? (August 6, 2013). Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 26, 2016, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2306489 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2306489

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Charles University in Prague - Department of Economics ( email )

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