The interrelationships, interdependencies, integration, and dynamic linkages in between countries, regions including BRIC, country-region, and developing-developed stock markets had been thoroughly researched in the literature. This study aims at investigating above relationships both in short and long-run with special reference to India. It undertakes daily closing values of the BRIC indices f...

the process of economic globalization and integration has had a tremendous growth in recent years and the convergence of various economic sectors, including the financial markets is increasingly in the spotlight. this increasing trend has strengthened investors' interests in the subject of convergence among the world's stock markets and investors experimentally show a passion for unde...

The Indian stock market is one of the earliest in Asia being in operation since 1875, but remained largely outside the global integration process until the late 1980s. A number of developing countries in concert with the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank took steps in the 1980s to establish and revitalize their stock markets as an effective way of mobilizing and allocation of...

Should the national economy lead the stock market or the other way round? Using co-integration test and Granger causality test, this paper analyzes the relationship between the stock index and the national economy in the case of China. The result of the empirical analysis indicates that there is no co-integration relationship between the stock index and the national economy in China. In additio...

Abstract This paper uses a broad geographical sample of economies to study stock market integration during the classical Gold Standard. It is novel in estimating common or “global” component returns across all countries and studying how individual markets co-move with this. Variations exchanges often appear related large domestic financial political crises as idiosyncratic shocks were more than...

In this paper, we apply the FM methodology to the cross-section of Romanian-listed common stocks and investigate the explanatory power of market beta on the cross-section of commons stock returns from Bucharest Stock Exchange. Various assumptions are empirically tested, such us linearity, market efficiency, the “no systematic effect of non-beta risk” hypothesis or the positive expected risk-ret...

The current international integration of financial markets provides a channel for currency depreciation to affect stock prices. Moreover, the recent financial crisis in Asia with its accompanying exchange rate volatility affords a case study to examine that channel. This paper applies a bivariate GARCH-M model of the reduced form of stock market returns to investigate empirically the effects of...