As geopolitical factors increasingly influence markets, investors need to gauge the impact on investments. Most experts consider political risks unquantifiable, but this publication shows how such risks can be quantified and used for risk management

Given the importance of stock market synchronization for international portfolio diversification, we estimate the degrees of co-movements among US, Chinese and Russian markets. By applying the TVP-VAR approach, we measure total and bivariate synchronization indices utilizing daily data from 1998...