We empirically test the dependence of the Russian stock market on the world stock market and world oil prices in the period 1997:10-2012:02. We also consider three Eastern European stock markets (Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary), as well as two markets outside Europe (Turkey and South...

This paper examines the short run and long run inter linkages of the Indian stock market with those of Advanced emerging markets viz. Brazil, Hungary, Taiwan, Mexico, Poland and South Africa over the period ranging from 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2009 using Johansen co-integration test and...

Motivated by the rapid spread of novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in the world. This study explores the stock markets' response to the global COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries. We make use of a panel dataset including 685 observations from 13 countries in the Middle East and North...

The all-stock equity indices provide important information to market participants for asset allocation and investment performance evaluations. In this paper, we construct market capitalization weighted indexes for each of the 23 countries included in the MSCI Emerging Markets index as of...

There are numerous studies that examine the impact of social media on the stock market performance but there is a paucity of such evidences from the emerging economies. Today many multinational banks and other financial conglomerates from the developed countries are expanding their operations to...

In this paper, we examine four specific hypotheses relating to commonality in liquidity on the Chinese stock exchanges. These hypotheses are: (a) that market-wide liquidity determines liquidity of individual stocks; (b) that liquidity varies with firm size; (c) that market liquidity affects stock...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate long run relationship between developed, emerging and frontier markets of Europe. The paper applies Zivot and Andrews unit root test to examine stationarity of index series in the existence of a structural break. To account for instability in the...