Inter-Temporal Stability of the European Credit Spread Co-Movement Structure

University of Antwerp Working Paper

19 Pages Posted: 2 Jan 2004

See all articles by Marc J. K. de Ceuster

Marc J. K. de Ceuster

University of Antwerp - Faculty of Applied Economics - City Campus

Jan Annaert

University of Antwerp Department of Accounting & Finance; University of Antwerp - Antwerp Management School

Anouk G. P. Claes

University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics - City Campus; Université Saint-Louis Brussels

Date Written: September 2003

Abstract

Corporate bonds expose the investor to credit risk, which will be reflected in the credit spread. Based on the EMU Broad Market indices, we study the inter-temporal stability of the covariance and correlation matrices of credit spread changes on weekly data. For a multivariate framework, the Box and Jennrich tests are the most commonly used test statistics in the literature. However, we show that for small samples these tests are not well specified when the normality assumption is relaxed. A bootstrap-based statistical inference provides evidence that correlations and covariances between various (investment grade) credit spread changes are unstable over the 1998-2003 period.

Keywords: credit spreads, diversification, correlations, corporate bonds

JEL Classification: G110, G150

Suggested Citation

de Ceuster, Marc J. K. and Annaert, Jan and Claes, Anouk G. P. and Claes, Anouk G. P., Inter-Temporal Stability of the European Credit Spread Co-Movement Structure (September 2003). University of Antwerp Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=460642 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.460642

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Jan Annaert

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Faculty of Applied Economics
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Anouk G. P. Claes

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University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics - City Campus ( email )

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Antwerp, 2000
Belgium
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