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The effects of financial crises on international stock market volatility transmission

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posted on 2024-11-13, 16:14 authored by Indika Karunanayake Athukoralalage, Abbas Valadkhani, Martin O'BrienMartin O'Brien
With the integration of national economies through international trade and finance, the exploration of financial market interdependency has become profoundly important among market participants and scholars. Focusing on the Asian and global financial crises of 1997-98 and 2008-09 for Australia, Singapore, the UK, and the US, this paper examines the nature of such an interaction between stock market returns and their volatility. We use a multivariate generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) model and weekly data (January 1992-June 2009). Based on the results obtained from the mean return equations, we could not find any significant impact on returns arising from the Asian crisis and more recent global financial crisis across these four markets. However, both crises significantly increased the stock return volatilities across all of the four markets. Not surprisingly, it is also found that the US stock market is the most crucial market impacting on the volatilities of smaller economies such as Australia. Our results provide evidence of own and cross ARCH and GARCH effects among all four markets, suggesting the existence of significant volatility and cross volatility spillovers across all four markets. A high degree of time-varying co-volatility among these markets indicates that investors will be highly unlikely to benefit from diversifying their financial portfolio by acquiring stocks within these four countries only.

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Karunanayake Athukoralalage, I., Valadkhani, A. & O'Brien, M. (2010). The effects of financial crises on international stock market volatility transmission. Economics Joint Scientific Conference (pp. 1-25). Korea: Korea Economic Association.

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1-25

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English

RIS ID

74712

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