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In our network analysis of 40 developed, emerging and frontier stock markets during 2006-2014, we describe and model volatility spillovers during global financial crisis and tranquil periods. The resulting market interconnectedness is depicted by fitting a spatial model incorporating several...
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examines whether equity markets in emerging countries were vulnerable to contagion during the recent financial meltdown …
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This paper contributes to the literature on international stock market comovements and contagion. The novelty of our … lower contagion between the CEE markets and the German DAX after the large 2008 stock market crash. …
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This Paper develops a test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis, which generalizes … existing tests, and applies it to the international effects of the Hong Kong stock market crisis of October 1997. Contagion is … country-specific shocks in Hong Kong, our test finds evidence of contagion for 5 countries out of a sample of 17. This is in …
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examines whether equity markets in emerging countries were vulnerable to contagion during the recent financial meltdown …
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This paper presents a general test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis � a test … that can be interpreted as an extension of the normal correlation theorem. Contagion is defined as a structural break in … hypothesis of 'no contagion' can be rejected only if the variance of country specific shocks is set to levels that are not …
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In this paper, we study the effects of US target rate changes and related communications by members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on spreads for emerging market sovereign credit default swaps (CDS). Using GARCH models, we find that during the pre-financial crisis sub-sample (April...
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Although the literature on the benefits of diversifying equity portfolios to emerging markets is abundant, the role of frontier markets in global equity portfolio diversification is clearly less examined. We contribute to the existing literature by examining three different, though closely...
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