Stock Return Volatility and Market Crisis in Emerging Economies

Review of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 3, No. 3

Posted: 10 Jan 2004

Abstract

This paper explored the new features of emerging stock markets, in order to point out the most associated indicators of increasing stock return volatility, which may lead to instability of emerging markets. The study covers a sample of five geographical areas of emerging economies, including Mexico, Korea, South Africa, Turkey, and Malaysia. It used the backward multiple-regression technique to examine the relationship between monthly changes of stock price indices as dependent variable and the associated predicting local as well as international variables, which represent possible causes of increasing price volatility and initiating crises in emerging stock markets. The study covered monthly data for a period of forty-eight months from January 1997 to December 2000.

The study revealed that stock trading volume and currency exchange rate respectively represent the highest positive correlation to the emerging stock price changes; thus represent the most predicting variables of increasing price volatility. International stock price index, deposit interest rate, and bond trading volume were moderate predicting variables for emerging stock price volatility. While changes in inflation rate showed the least positive correlation to stock price volatility, thus represents the least predicting variable.

Keywords: Emerging stock markets, volatility and stock market crisis

JEL Classification: G12, G14, G15

Suggested Citation

Sabri, Nidal Rashid, Stock Return Volatility and Market Crisis in Emerging Economies. Review of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 3, No. 3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=470422

Nidal Rashid Sabri (Contact Author)

Birzeit University ( email )

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Palestine
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