Spatial Multivariate GARCH Models and Financial Spillovers

Abstract We estimate the risk spillover among European banks from equity log-return data via Conditional Value at Risk (CoVaR). The joint dynamic of returns is modeled with a spatial DCC-GARCH which allows the conditional variance of log-returns of each bank to depend on past volatility shocks to other banks and their past squared returns in a parsimonious way. The backtesting of the resulting risk measures provides evidence that (i) the multivariate GARCH model with Student’s t distribution is more accurate than both the standard multivariate Gaussian model and the Filtered Historical Simulation (FHS), and (ii) the introduction of a spatial component improves the assessment of risk profiles and the market risk spillovers.