Green Bond’s co-movement with the treasury bond, corporate bond, stock, and carbon markets during an economic recession
2021 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Background: With the tremendous growth of the Green Bond (GB) market, understanding the relationship of the GB market with other financial markets gains importance. The Covid19 pandemic causing a recession in most major economies creates an opportunity to see the co-movements of the GB market with other financial markets under a period of economic crisis. Purpose: This study aims to use the economic contraction catalyzed by the 2020’s Covid-19 pandemic as a means to investigate the co-movements between the GB and the treasury bond, corporate bond, stock, and carbon markets during an economic recession. Through this, we intend to find if co-movements of the GB market have changed, and if so, how. Method: As the collected data is time-series data, Augmented Dickey-Fuller and Ljung-Box tests are utilized for preliminary testing. Thereafter, a univariate-GARCH model is used for volatility modeling. Moreover, the DCC-GARCH model has been conducted to determine the co-movements between the markets. Conclusion: The results of the study show that in the case of GB, treasury, and corporate bond markets, no considerable changes were observed in the co-movement among the two different sample periods. Moving to the stock and GB markets, it was found that the co-movement increased at the beginning of the crisis. However, for the whole crisis period, no substantial changes can be seen in comparison to the pre-crisis period. Furthermore, the co-movement between the two markets was found to be weak in general. Moving on to the results obtained for GB and carbon markets, at the start of the crisis, a sharp fall can be observed. When compared to the pre-crisis period, the co-movement showed a slight increase, yet very weak. Furthermore, it was observed that the co-movement between the two markets has been weak during the whole sample period.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 88
Keywords [en]
Green Bonds, Conventional Bond Market, Stock Market, Carbon Market, Co-movement, DCC-GARCH, Economic Crisis
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52683ISRN: JU-IHH-FÖA-2-20211313OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-52683DiVA, id: diva2:1561051
Subject / course
JIBS, Business Administration
Supervisors
Examiners
2021-06-182021-06-052025-10-13Bibliographically approved