To examine the interdependency and evolution of Pakistan’s stock market, we consider the cross-correlation coefficients of daily stock returns belonging to the blue chip Karachi stock exchange (KSE-100) index. Using the minimum spanning tree network-based method, we extend the financial...

Complexity in financial markets is slowly overwhelming canonical statistical modelling. With global crises which stemming from contagion effects becoming more frequent, new tools for financial distress transmission c apture are needed. Graph theory , with its branch on minimum spanning trees can...

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the relationships between world stock market indices. Classical minimum spanning tree approach is used, supported by edge stability analysis via bootstrap technique. Centrality measures analysis is applied for finding hubs in the network. Stock...