Research Article

Does Diversification Affect Banking Systemic Risk?

Table 2

Linear Granger causality tests.

Null hypothesis examined VAR lag length -statistic value

does not Granger cause 3 0.7397 0.5319
does not Granger cause 5 0.4252 0.8295

Notes: the VAR lag lengths were selected based on the Schwartz Information Criterion (SIC).