This empirical examination of the effect of rollover risk on default risk uses a database of U.S. industrial firms during 1986-2011. This article represents the most comprehensive empirical study to date to support the existence of a rollover risk effect on default risk. This paper investigates...

We model systemic risk by including a common factor exposure to market-wide shocks and an exposure to tail dependence effects arising from linkages among extreme stock returns. Specifically our model allows for the firm-specific impact of infrequent and extreme events. When a jump occurs, its...

This paper proposes a new measure of tail risk spillover, namely the conditional coexceedance which is the number of joint occurrences of extreme negative returns in an industry conditional on an extreme negative return in the financial sector. The empirical application provides evidence of...