As a topical issue, this paper studies the responses of world stock market indices to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. Using daily stock market returns in a sample of 94 countries and covers the period from 22 January 2022 to 24 March 2022, we consistently document a negative...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia on systemic risk in financial markets. Using daily systemic risk data from 28 countries between December 2021 and April 2022, we highlight strong financial stress since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia....