The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the emerging markets and retail internationalization, with a special focus on the markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, also known as BRIC countries. The paper relies on the fact that the emerging markets, especially...

This paper employs a panel logistic regression to evaluate the role of global and domestic risk factors in explaining sovereign tail risk for 18 emerging economies (EMEs). Sovereign tail risk is defined as the likelihood of a sharp rise in sovereign credit risk. We find that both global and...