Measuring systemic risk during the COVID-19 period: A TALIS3 approach.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had severe impacts on financial markets. We analyzed the systemic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in different supersectors of STOXX600 North America and the STOXX600 Europe, using the TrAffic Light System for Systemic Stress (TALIS 3 ) approach which provides a comprehensive color-based classification for grouping sectors according to system and sector stress level. We contrasted the financial markets' reaction in North America and Europe, noticing that in Europe the systemic impact has been more persistent during March-May 2021. By evaluating the sectorial contribution to market risk, we observed heterogeneity between North America and Europe.

Studying the properties of the Bitcoin as a diversifying and hedging asset through a copula analysis: Constant and time-varying.

In this study, we analyze the properties of Bitcoin as a diversifier asset and hedge asset against the movement of international market stock indices: S&P500 (US), STOXX50 (EU), NIKKEI (Japan), CSI300 (Shanghai), and HSI (Hong Kong). For this, we use several copula models: Gaussian, Student-t, Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank. The analysis period runs from August 18, 2011 to June 31, 2019. We found that the Gaussian and Student-t copulas are best at fitting the structure dependence between markets. Also, these copulas suggest that under normal market conditions, Bitcoin might act as a hedge asset against the stock price movements of all international markets analyzed. However, the dependence on the Shanghai and Hong Kong markets was somewhat higher. Also, under extreme market conditions, the role of Bitcoin might change from hedge to diversifier. In a time-varying copula analysis, given by the Student-t copula, we found that even under normal market conditions, for some markets, the role of Bitcoin as a hedge asset might fail on a high number of days.