In this thesis I considered the difference in price between two CDS written on the same bank's bond in two different currencies, Euro and US dollars. This difference has already been theoretically captured by an intensity based model of Philippe Ehlers and Philipp Schonbucher [2004], and already exploited in the case of sovereign CDS by arbitrageurs using innovative instrument as Quanto CDS. I focused on the size behaviour of this discrepancy between CDS spreads, and to analyze its price discovery. Typical instrument to perform this analysis are cointegration and linear VECM; I chose to apply also the more sophisticated threshold VECM to understand if it improves the description and interpretation of this difference in prices. I considered first the time period that goes from December 2007 to December 2017. Then, I separated the time-span in three historical periods, the sub-prime financial crisis and following period of policies, the European sovereign debt crisis and the quantitative easing regime. Finally, observing the path of the discrepancies, I individuated two periods: one extremely volatile and that reaches high absolute values but for short time intervals, the other lower in absolute value and volatility, but in which the difference is really more persistent. Thanks to the analysis on this six time periods, it can be concluded that in period of crisis, when volatility is high and the mean reversion process is really strong, the classic linear VECM describes better the behaviour of the differences in spreads. On the opposite, when volatility is low and the difference is more persistent, as during more stable historical periods, the TVECM perfectly fits the evolution of two prices. Finally, the price discovery is leaded by both markets.
In questa tesi, ho analizzato la differenza di prezzo tra due CDS scritti sulle stesso bond, ma in due valute differenti, Euro e Dollaro americano. Questa discrepanza nei prezzi era già stata catturata da un un intensity-based model di Philippe Ehlers and Philipp Schonbucher [2004], e l’arbitraggio è già stato individuato e sfruttato utilizzando strumenti innovativi come i quanto CDS, nel mercato dei CDS sovrani. la mia analisi si è concentrata sul modernizzare il comportamento di questa differenza e sull’analizzare la price discovery. Gli strumenti più utilizzati in letterature per queste analisi sono la co-integrazione e il VECM lineare; ho deciso di utilizzare anche il più sofisticato Threshold VECM quando quest’ultimo ha migliorato la descrizione e l’interpretazione della differenza di prezzo. Inizialmente, ho considerato l’intervallo temporale che va da Dicembre 2007 a Dicembre 2017; poi lo ho suddiviso in tre sotto.intervalli: la crisi finanziaria dei subprime e il successivo periodo di politiche monetarie ed economiche, la crisi del debito sovrano europeo, e infine il periodo di Quantitative Easing. Inoltre, ho individuato due periodi osservando il cammino delle differenze di prezzo: il primo caratterizzato da elevata volatilità e divergenze di prezzo per piccoli intervalli di tempo, il secondo caratterizzato da meno volatilità e differenze decisamente minori, ma molto più persistenti. Grazie all’analisi su questi sei intervalli, è stata osservato che nei periodi di crisi, quando la volatilità è elevata e la mean-reversion molto forte, il VECM lineare classico si addice meglio a descrivere le differenze tra gli spread nelle due valute. Al contrario, quando la volatilità è bassa e le differenze persistenti, come in periodi più economicamente stabili, il TVECM modernizza meglio l’evoluzione dei prezzi. Infine, risulta che la price discovery avvenga in entrambi i mercati.
An econometric analysis of the CDS spreads written in different currencies by linear and thresholds VECM
MOAWAD, STEFANO
2016/2017
Abstract
In this thesis I considered the difference in price between two CDS written on the same bank's bond in two different currencies, Euro and US dollars. This difference has already been theoretically captured by an intensity based model of Philippe Ehlers and Philipp Schonbucher [2004], and already exploited in the case of sovereign CDS by arbitrageurs using innovative instrument as Quanto CDS. I focused on the size behaviour of this discrepancy between CDS spreads, and to analyze its price discovery. Typical instrument to perform this analysis are cointegration and linear VECM; I chose to apply also the more sophisticated threshold VECM to understand if it improves the description and interpretation of this difference in prices. I considered first the time period that goes from December 2007 to December 2017. Then, I separated the time-span in three historical periods, the sub-prime financial crisis and following period of policies, the European sovereign debt crisis and the quantitative easing regime. Finally, observing the path of the discrepancies, I individuated two periods: one extremely volatile and that reaches high absolute values but for short time intervals, the other lower in absolute value and volatility, but in which the difference is really more persistent. Thanks to the analysis on this six time periods, it can be concluded that in period of crisis, when volatility is high and the mean reversion process is really strong, the classic linear VECM describes better the behaviour of the differences in spreads. On the opposite, when volatility is low and the difference is more persistent, as during more stable historical periods, the TVECM perfectly fits the evolution of two prices. Finally, the price discovery is leaded by both markets.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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