Financial crises have shown that dramatic movements in one financial market can have a powerful impact on other markets. The paper proposes to use cobreaking to model comovements between financial markets during crises and to test for conta-gion. It finds evidence of cobreaking between stock returns in developed markets. Finding cobreaking has implications for the diversification of international investments. For emerging mar-ket stock returns the evidence of cobreaking is mainly due to the non-financial event of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Fi-nancial crises originating in one emerging market do not spread to other markets, i.e., no contagion.
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Paper provided by Hanken School of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
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Length: 20 pages Date of creation: 04 Jul 2008 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hhb:hanken:0537
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Geert Bekaert & Campbell R. Harvey & Angela Ng, 2005.
"Market Integration and Contagion,"
Journal of Business,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 78(1), pages 39-70, January.
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