...Wael Hemrit; Noureddine Benlagha; Nour Bouabdallah Purpose This paper aims to investigate how renewable energy index interacts and interrelates with developed and emerging stock markets and what the effect of uncertainties surrounding the pandemic and economic policy is on their connectedness from...

...Godwin Musah; Daniel Domeher; Abubakar Musah Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of presidential elections on stock return volatility in five leading stock markets in sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses various criteria to select an appropriate...

...Mourad Mroua; Hejer Bouattour Purpose This paper examines the time-varying return connectedness between renewable energy, oil, precious metals, the Gulf Council Cooperation region and the United States stock markets during two successive crises: the pandemic Covid-19 and the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian...

...Tess DeLean; Joseph P. Joyce Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether stock markets can reduce the output costs of banking crises. The work is motivated by Alan Greenspan’s claim that capital markets serve as a financial “spare tire” in the event of a banking crisis. Design...

...Sowmya Dhanaraj; Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy; Suresh Babu M Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the short‐term stock market interactions between US and six major Asian markets – China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These six economies along with Japan and Australia...

... for diversification, since the increasing globalization and stock market interdependence throughout the last 15 years, through the US subprime crisis equity investors had fewer opportunities for diversification. From policy makers' perspective, they should carefully examine and uncover possible decoupling strategies...

... Findings reveal that, while no sampled foreign exchange markets suffered from contagion, stock markets of Taiwan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and South Africa witnessed a contagion effect. Practical implications The results have two paramount implications. First, the paper has confirmed existing consensus...

...Salman Khan; Pierre Batteau Purpose In September‐October 2008 the Russian stock markets came under severe strain amidst the global financial crisis. During this time the Russian government intervened several times to halt the trade to impede the continuous slide. The government justified its...

... a period of transition from centrally planned economy to market economy, the Chinese stock market is distinguished for its “Chinese characteristics” (Section 3). The very idea of private investment in capital markets was new to the vast majority of Chinese nationals when stock markets first opened...