TY - BOOK AU - Tamakoshi,Go AU - Hamori,Shigeyuki TI - Volatility and mean spillovers between sovereign and banking sector CDS markets: a note on the European sovereign debt crisis SN - 13504851 AV - HB1.A666 APP PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Taylor and Francis KW - European sovereign debt crisis KW - Credit default swap KW - Bank sector CDS N2 - This article empirically assesses causality-in-variance and causality-in-mean between the Eurozone banking sector Credit Default Swap (CDS) index and the Greek sovereign CDS spread. We employ the Cross-Correlation Function (CCF) approach developed by Hong (2001) to daily data from January 2008 to December 2011. Our key findings are twofold. First, before the European sovereign debt crisis, significant unidirectional causality-in-variance and causality-in-mean were found from the bank CDS to the Greek sovereign CDS spreads. Second, during the crisis period, we detected significant causality-in-variance from the Greek sovereign CDS spreads to the bank CDS, implying that the deteriorated Greek sovereign solvency might have triggered contagion effects on the banking sector in the area. Our results are relevant for policymakers who provide regulations for the CDS markets UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2012.689107 ER -