Extreme-Downside-Risk Spillover from the United States and Japan to Asian-Pacific Stock Markets

Abstract

This paper proposes a probit approach to measure and forecast extreme downside risks in Asian Pacific markets given information on extreme negative shocks in the U.S. and Japanese markets. The extreme downside risk of a market is measured as the occurrence of market returns falling below left-tail Value at Risk in a Markov switching framework. The empirical findings are consistent with the following notions. First, extreme downside movements of the S&P 500 and Nikkei 225 are significantly predictive for extreme downside movements in all of the investigated Asian-Pacific markets. Second, the majority of Asian-Pacific markets become more sensitive to the Japan’s extreme negative shocks when the Japanese market switches into turbulent periods, whereas the U.S. spillover effect is enhanced only on Taiwan during the U.S. turbulent periods. Third, mainland China is overall the least affected by the extreme negative shocks in the United States and Japan, while Australia is the most sensitive to the United States and Singapore is the most vulnerable to Japan.