Financial contagion effects of major crises in African stock markets

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    Abstract

    This study examines financial contagion effects in African stock markets during major crises over the period 2005 to 2020. We investigate contagion effects in individual stock markets and from a regional perspective using dynamic conditional correlations during the global financial crisis, European debt crisis, Brexit, and COVID-19. The empirical evidence confirms contagion effects in some individual markets. However, significant evidence of contagion is found only during the global financial crisis from the regional perspective. Our findings suggest that the regional impacts of crises differ due to the nature of those crises. We also find financial contagion increases in the country-level risk, market capitalization and export to GDP and decreases in corruption.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number102128
    JournalInternational Review of Financial Analysis
    Volume82
    Early online date15 Apr 2022
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

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    This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
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    provided the original work is properly cited.

    Keywords

    • Financial crisis
    • Contagion effect
    • African stock markets

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