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Financial integration in the GCC region: market size versus national effects

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  • Kerim Peren Arin
  • Guglielmo Maria Caporale
  • Kyriacos Kyriacou
  • Nicola Spagnolo

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This paper examines financial spillovers between the four largest equity markets (by market capitalization) in the GCC region using a VAR-GARCH (1,1) framework that sheds light on interdependence as well as the effects of the 2014 oil crisis. Since the UAE is a federation including two stock exchanges (Abu Dhabi and Dubai), it is possible to test whether being part of a federal union matters more than market size in terms of financial integration. Our results suggest that the latter is more important, since we could not find evidence of stronger linkages between the Abu Dhabi and Dubai markets compared to those between other markets in the region. By contrast, there are significant spillover effects, both in the mean and in the volatility, from the largest market of Saudi Arabia to Qatar and the two markets in the UAE, which confirms that market capitalization is a more important determinant of financial integration than belonging to a federal union. Further, spillovers from the larger markets have become stronger as a result of the 2014 oil crisis. Finally, there is also evidence of spillovers from the smaller to the larger markets.

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  • Kerim Peren Arin & Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Kyriacos Kyriacou & Nicola Spagnolo, 2019. "Financial integration in the GCC region: market size versus national effects," CESifo Working Paper Series 7686, CESifo.
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    3. Kapar, Burcu & Billah, Syed Mabruk & Rana, Faisal & Balli, Faruk, 2024. "An investigation of the frequency dynamics of spillovers and connectedness among GCC sectoral indices," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(PA), pages 1442-1467.
    4. Ngo Thai Hung, 2021. "Financial connectedness of GCC emerging stock markets," Eurasian Economic Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 11(4), pages 753-773, December.

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    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets

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