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Crisis Periods, Contagion and Integration Effects in the Major African Equity Markets During the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis

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Labuschagne C., Majewska E., Olbryś J.

Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne

2016

vol. 5(83)

A number of studies assert that during critical events cross-market correlations change substantially. The main focus of this paper is to explicitly test two research hypotheses concerning the effect of increasing cross-market correlations in the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) compared to the pre-crisis period. These hypotheses state that there was no contagion and no integration effects among the U.S., the U.K., and selected African stock markets (South Africa, Namibia, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya) during the GFC. The crisis periods are formally detected using a statistical method of dividing market states into bullish and bearish markets. The sample period begins in January 2003 and ends in December 2013, and it includes the 2007 U.S. subprime crisis. Obtained results indicate that there is no reason to reject both research hypotheses. Moreover, the results confirm a heterogeneity of the African equity markets in the context of the influence of the recent global crisis.

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Crisis Periods, Contagion and Integration Effects in the Major African Equity Markets During the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis