The input-output network of an industrial chain provides a channel for risk transmission. Using Smooth-Transition Vector Autoregression model (STVAR) and Diebold-Yilmaz directional connectedness measures, we explore tail risk (extreme risk) contagion across China’s automotive industrial chain. We find significant spillover effects that are asymmetric in different phases of China’s business cycle, monetary cycle, and policy uncertainty. When China’s economy is in a recession, under a monetary expansion, or at a high level of policy uncertaint...
