Pub Date : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102513
Qiang Liu , Ting Liu , Chen Xu
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, with its uncertainty significantly impacting financial stability. This study examines the spillover effects of China’s climate policy uncertainty on the stock, money, bond, foreign exchange and futures markets, using data from October 2006 to August 2024 and applying the QVAR-DY spillover index method. The findings reveal: (1) Extreme conditions amplify the spillover effects of China’s climate policy uncertainty on financial markets, especially during market booms. (2) The static analysis shows that under normal conditions, the largest spillovers are seen in the bond and futures markets. Under extreme conditions, the bond market is the most affected. Dynamic analysis shows that spillovers increase significantly during climate events (Copenhagen Summit, Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals). During market downturns, the bond market is impacted most; during market booms, the money market is more susceptible. (3) Net spillover analysis finds significant positive net spillovers to financial sub-markets during market booms. The findings guide efforts to manage climate policy uncertainty and reduce systemic financial risks.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102503
Young-Sung Kim , Dong-Jun Kim , Sun-Yong Choi
This study analyzes the relationship between foreign exchange (FX) markets and cryptocurrencies, focusing on both major and minor currencies. Using a quantile spillover framework, we examine how this relationship evolves under varying market conditions. The empirical findings reveal three key insights. First, spillover effects between the FX and cryptocurrency markets play a significant role in shaping their interrelationship. Under normal market conditions, the FX market has a limited influence on cryptocurrencies. Second, within the FX market, the U.S. Dollar Index exerts the most substantial impact on both major and minor currencies, while in the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin holds the biggest influence over other cryptocurrencies. Finally, as market conditions become more extreme, spillover effects between the FX and cryptocurrency markets intensify. These findings highlight the dynamic nature of cross-market interactions and underscore the importance of considering market conditions when evaluating spillover effects between FX and cryptocurrency markets.
{"title":"Dynamic spillover analysis between FX and cryptocurrency markets across different market conditions: A quantile VAR approach","authors":"Young-Sung Kim , Dong-Jun Kim , Sun-Yong Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study analyzes the relationship between foreign exchange (FX) markets and cryptocurrencies, focusing on both major and minor currencies. Using a quantile spillover framework, we examine how this relationship evolves under varying market conditions. The empirical findings reveal three key insights. First, spillover effects between the FX and cryptocurrency markets play a significant role in shaping their interrelationship. Under normal market conditions, the FX market has a limited influence on cryptocurrencies. Second, within the FX market, the U.S. Dollar Index exerts the most substantial impact on both major and minor currencies, while in the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin holds the biggest influence over other cryptocurrencies. Finally, as market conditions become more extreme, spillover effects between the FX and cryptocurrency markets intensify. These findings highlight the dynamic nature of cross-market interactions and underscore the importance of considering market conditions when evaluating spillover effects between FX and cryptocurrency markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102503"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144779947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102510
Giovanni De Luca, Belinda Laura Del Gaudio, Anna Pia Di Iorio
This paper explores the relationship between geopolitical risk and financial stress. We use a quantile regression to investigate the impact of geopolitical risk on financial stress levels, along with its constituent elements, such as credit, equity, volatility, funding and safe assets. The dataset comprises observations collected on a daily basis between January 3, 2000, and November 8, 2024. The time span permits the exploitation of the relationship, with the effect of a structural break in the time series being controlled for. In light of the identified structural break in the financial market, the results indicate that an increase in geopolitical risk exerts a notable influence on financial stress. Furthermore, the findings suggest a positive relationship among all financial components. As the severity of financial stress escalates, the impact concomitantly increases. Notably, the safe assets component of the financial stress index demonstrates the greatest responsiveness to elevated stress levels. The findings are corroborated for all geographical areas examined, except for those situated within emerging markets, which appear to demonstrate a reduced sensitivity to geopolitical risk.
{"title":"Geopolitical risk and financial stress","authors":"Giovanni De Luca, Belinda Laura Del Gaudio, Anna Pia Di Iorio","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the relationship between geopolitical risk and financial stress. We use a quantile regression to investigate the impact of geopolitical risk on financial stress levels, along with its constituent elements, such as credit, equity, volatility, funding and safe assets. The dataset comprises observations collected on a daily basis between January 3, 2000, and November 8, 2024. The time span permits the exploitation of the relationship, with the effect of a structural break in the time series being controlled for. In light of the identified structural break in the financial market, the results indicate that an increase in geopolitical risk exerts a notable influence on financial stress. Furthermore, the findings suggest a positive relationship among all financial components. As the severity of financial stress escalates, the impact concomitantly increases. Notably, the safe assets component of the financial stress index demonstrates the greatest responsiveness to elevated stress levels. The findings are corroborated for all geographical areas examined, except for those situated within emerging markets, which appear to demonstrate a reduced sensitivity to geopolitical risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102511
Baoxiu Wu , Qing Wang
This research examines cross-asset contagion and risk transmission by modeling global financial markets as a dynamic network, integrating equities, currencies, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Using extreme value theory and tail-dependent copulas, we develop novel measures of contagion centrality and risk pathways, uncovering a persistent core-periphery structure where central assets exhibit shock-absorber properties during crises, while peripheral nodes amplify systemic fragility. Our findings reveal that financial contagion intensifies under stress, with enduring post-crisis interconnectedness, challenging traditional diversification strategies. Crucially, network topology-not just asset class-determines vulnerability: central assets demonstrate resilience to tail risks, whereas peripheral nodes face heightened susceptibility. These insights have profound implications for systemic risk monitoring, suggesting regulators prioritize real-time tracking of core-periphery linkages, while investors adjust hedging strategies to account for nonlinear contagion channels. The study advances financial network theory by unifying cross-asset spillovers within a topological framework and offers actionable tools for crisis mitigation in interconnected markets.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102508
Lucio Gobbi , Ronny Mazzocchi , Roberto Tamborini
When inflation picks up, central banks fear that de-anchored expectations trigger ever increasing inflation, but this scenario does not materialize in the standard New Keynesian (NK) blueprint for central banks. Divergent inflation processes may result introducing boundedly rational beliefs about future inflation that de-anchor endogenously, together with indexed wages and persistent shocks. However, by means of simulations of the model, we find that the relevant parameters should be far beyond their consensus empirical values. Either the concern with the de-anchoring of inflation expectations is overrated or it should be given different theoretical underpinnings than the NK ones.
{"title":"Inflation shocks and the New Keynesian model: When should central banks fear inflation expectations?","authors":"Lucio Gobbi , Ronny Mazzocchi , Roberto Tamborini","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When inflation picks up, central banks fear that de-anchored expectations trigger ever increasing inflation, but this scenario does not materialize in the standard New Keynesian (NK) blueprint for central banks. Divergent inflation processes may result introducing boundedly rational beliefs about future inflation that de-anchor endogenously, together with indexed wages and persistent shocks. However, by means of simulations of the model, we find that the relevant parameters should be far beyond their consensus empirical values. Either the concern with the de-anchoring of inflation expectations is overrated or it should be given different theoretical underpinnings than the NK ones.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102508"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144713596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102504
Uzay Çetin , Şükrü C. Demirtaş , Senem Çakmak Şahin
We analyzed the effect of the daily price margin on artificial stock markets. In our study, we have two distinct market scenarios: One designed to imitate a market akin to that of Türkiye, characterized by the presence of a daily price margin regulation, and the other reflecting a market resembling the United States, where orders are not subject to daily price margin constraints. With daily price margin regulations stock prices become more accessible, positively impacting market volume. We incorporated a realistic order book mechanism for keeping track of the bid and ask orders. Traders are classified as either fundamental or noise, according to their strategies. We have also established a dynamic risk level for each stock, based on its weekly transaction volumes. Only fundamentals are risk-aware. That is, they tend to order stocks with low risk and avoid high risk stocks. We have detected emerging patterns of price fluctuations within the market scenario governed by the daily price margin regulations. Risk-aware herd behavior, despite not being explicitly modeled as an input, emerges also spontaneously within the system. These patterns emerge because of the complex relationship among dynamic risk levels of stocks, risk-aware traders and the daily price margin regulation.
{"title":"Price dynamics in artificial stock market with realistic order book mechanism","authors":"Uzay Çetin , Şükrü C. Demirtaş , Senem Çakmak Şahin","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102504","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102504","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We analyzed the effect of the daily price margin on artificial stock markets. In our study, we have two distinct market scenarios: One designed to imitate a market akin to that of Türkiye, characterized by the presence of a daily price margin regulation, and the other reflecting a market resembling the United States, where orders are not subject to daily price margin constraints. With daily price margin regulations stock prices become more accessible, positively impacting market volume. We incorporated a realistic order book mechanism for keeping track of the bid and ask orders. Traders are classified as either fundamental or noise, according to their strategies. We have also established a dynamic risk level for each stock, based on its weekly transaction volumes. Only fundamentals are risk-aware. That is, they tend to order stocks with low risk and avoid high risk stocks. We have detected emerging patterns of price fluctuations within the market scenario governed by the daily price margin regulations. Risk-aware herd behavior, despite not being explicitly modeled as an input, emerges also spontaneously within the system. These patterns emerge because of the complex relationship among dynamic risk levels of stocks, risk-aware traders and the daily price margin regulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102504"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102500
Wenting Chen , Xin-Jiang He
In this paper, we consider the pricing of European options under a generalized regime-switching Heston model. By “generalized”, it means that all parameters of the original Heston model are expected to vary among various economic states. This broad assumption regarding regime switching has impeded the application of existing analytical techniques used to calculate European option prices under Heston-type regime-switching models. Albeit difficult, we have managed to derive an analytical approximation for the price of European options with the use of frozen coefficient technique. Remarkably, an error estimation for the approximation has been established theoretically and verified quantitatively through numerical experiments. Finally, through a preliminary empirical study, the current model is shown to be superior to a class of generally used Heston-type models, implying that the present model, together with the newly derived formula, can be safely used in actual financial market for pricing European options expiring in no more than three months.
{"title":"An analytical approximation for European options under a Heston-type model with regime switching","authors":"Wenting Chen , Xin-Jiang He","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102500","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102500","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we consider the pricing of European options under a generalized regime-switching Heston model. By “generalized”, it means that all parameters of the original Heston model are expected to vary among various economic states. This broad assumption regarding regime switching has impeded the application of existing analytical techniques used to calculate European option prices under Heston-type regime-switching models. Albeit difficult, we have managed to derive an analytical approximation for the price of European options with the use of frozen coefficient technique. Remarkably, an error estimation for the approximation has been established theoretically and verified quantitatively through numerical experiments. Finally, through a preliminary empirical study, the current model is shown to be superior to a class of generally used Heston-type models, implying that the present model, together with the newly derived formula, can be safely used in actual financial market for pricing European options expiring in no more than three months.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102500"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144702749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-20DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102505
Chuangxia Huang , Hualu Miao , Xiaoguang Yang , Jie Cao , Huirui Yang
How to accurately measure the systemic risk is one of the fundamental and challenging problems in the field of risk management. Most previous studies do not fully consider the cascading failure mechanism caused by risk co-contagion and network effects, leading to misestimation of systemic risk. We construct financial institution tail risk networks by LASSO technique and then simulating the cascading process of risk contagion by ΔCoES on the networks. By developing a general cascading failure model, this paper proposes a novel indicator, ESRank, to measure systemic risk. We apply ESRank to analyze Chinese financial institutions and the empirical results suggest that: (i) during the crisis periods, especially the 2015–2016 stock crash period, the Chinese financial system manifests a higher ESRank in comparison to normal periods; (ii) the securities sector is the largest risk contributor before the stock crash, while the diversified financial institutions have displayed increasing risk contributions afterwards; (iii) compared with the traditional systemic risk indicators such as VaR, CoVaR and SRISK, the proposed ESRank demonstrates the outstanding characteristics of better predictive and explanatory capabilities regarding institutional profitability.
{"title":"Cascading failure, financial network and systemic risk","authors":"Chuangxia Huang , Hualu Miao , Xiaoguang Yang , Jie Cao , Huirui Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102505","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.najef.2025.102505","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How to accurately measure the systemic risk is one of the fundamental and challenging problems in the field of risk management. Most previous studies do not fully consider the cascading failure mechanism caused by risk co-contagion and network effects, leading to misestimation of systemic risk. We construct financial institution tail risk networks by LASSO technique and then simulating the cascading process of risk contagion by ΔCoES on the networks. By developing a general cascading failure model, this paper proposes a novel indicator, ESRank, to measure systemic risk. We apply ESRank to analyze Chinese financial institutions and the empirical results suggest that: (i) during the crisis periods, especially the 2015–2016 stock crash period, the Chinese financial system manifests a higher ESRank in comparison to normal periods; (ii) the securities sector is the largest risk contributor before the stock crash, while the diversified financial institutions have displayed increasing risk contributions afterwards; (iii) compared with the traditional systemic risk indicators such as VaR, CoVaR and SRISK, the proposed ESRank demonstrates the outstanding characteristics of better predictive and explanatory capabilities regarding institutional profitability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47831,"journal":{"name":"North American Journal of Economics and Finance","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102505"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102501
Ronghua Luo , Zeyu Huang , Yangyi Liu
We introduce the Relative Downside Tracking Error (RDTE) model, a dynamic enhanced indexing method that adapts to the time-varying and mean-reverting nature of market volatility. The RDTE model dynamically adjusts the weights assigned to downside deviations based on market volatility, allowing for greater flexibility during high-volatility periods. This flexibility helps the model reduce the emphasis on short-term fluctuations, focusing instead on minimizing overall downside risk. By doing so, the model effectively controls portfolio distortion, leading to more stable long-term performance. Empirical analyses of U.S. and Chinese stock markets demonstrate that the RDTE model consistently outperforms traditional models, delivering higher returns, lower downside risk, and better risk-adjusted performance. This outperformance is driven by the RDTE model’s effective downside risk management during volatile periods, as confirmed by its superior long-term performance in both markets.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2025.102474
Nikolaos Kyriazis , Shaen Corbet
This research examines the dynamic interaction between conventional financial assets, namely the US dollar, the S&P 500 index, gold and crude oil, and ten major green cryptocurrencies, focusing on their spillover linkages and hedging capacities during major global economic and geopolitical shocks. The study analyses daily data to uncover spillover effects using the innovative Quantile-Vector Autoregressive methodology developed by Cunado et al. (2023). Results indicate that green cryptocurrencies significantly interact with other examined instruments. Algorand, Cardano, IOTA, TRON and Powerledger demonstrate the largest interactive effects, with the latter standing out as a consistent transmitter of influence across both crises, demonstrating that this sub-class of cryptocurrency is exhibiting elevated maturity. Traditional assets predominantly act as receivers of such risk dynamics from more speculative asset classes, with gold identified as an effective absorber of spillovers, especially in bear markets. Conversely, the US dollar and crude oil are identified as large transmitters of spillover impacts, a result found to be particularly influential in periods of geopolitical conflict. The study further reveals that green cryptocurrencies promoting trust, innovation, and renewable energy are more effectively connected with traditional investments than those focusing on financial services or business accessibility, presenting diversification opportunities during crises.
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