{"title":"Pandemic tail risk","authors":"Matthijs Breugem , Raffaele Corvino , Roberto Marfè , Lorenzo Schönleber","doi":"10.1016/j.jbankfin.2024.107257","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies the measurement of forward-looking tail risk in US equity markets around the COVID-19 outbreak. We document that financial markets are informative about how pandemic risk has spread in the economy in advance of the actual outbreak. While the tail risk of the market index did not respond before the outbreak, investors identified less pandemic-resilient economic sectors whose tail risk boomed in advance of both the market drawdown and the implementation of social distancing provisions. This pattern is consistent across different methodologies for measuring forward-looking tail risk, using option contracts, and across various horizons.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Banking & Finance","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 107257"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Banking & Finance","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378426624001717","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper studies the measurement of forward-looking tail risk in US equity markets around the COVID-19 outbreak. We document that financial markets are informative about how pandemic risk has spread in the economy in advance of the actual outbreak. While the tail risk of the market index did not respond before the outbreak, investors identified less pandemic-resilient economic sectors whose tail risk boomed in advance of both the market drawdown and the implementation of social distancing provisions. This pattern is consistent across different methodologies for measuring forward-looking tail risk, using option contracts, and across various horizons.
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