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Review of Finance Vol. 19 No. 5 2015

Stock Market Integration and the Global Financial Crisis

Heikki Lehkonen

Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics

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Abstract

We study the dynamics of stock market integration and its consequences during the recent financial crisis for twenty-three developed and sixty emerging markets. We find that integration increased slightly for emerging markets but decreased for developed countries during the crisis. Moreover, we argue that the high degree of integration propagated the crisis across the global financial markets at the beginning of the crisis, but it had little effect during the crisis. We also find that integration is mostly affected by financial openness, the institutional environment, and global financial uncertainty but that these determinants vary slightly between emerging and developed markets.

DOI
10.1093/rof/rfu039
Volume
19
Issue
5
Pages
2039-2094
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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