Return and volatility spillover between India, UK, USA and European stock markets: The Brexit impact

Title

Return and volatility spillover between India, UK, USA and European stock markets: The Brexit impact

Creator

Nagarakatte S.G.; Natchimuthu N.

Description

The 2016 Brexit referendum created potential turmoil in financial markets. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the Brexit referendum on the return and volatility spillover between the EU, the UK, and the USA stock markets and the Indian stock market during the pre- and post-Brexit referendum period. The VAR and bivariate GARCH BEKK models were employed. The study results suggest that before the Brexit referendum, Indian stock market returns made no significant return spillover on the other markets. On the contrary, following the referendum, Indian stock returns significantly spilled over to France, Germany, the UK, and the USA stock market returns. The study results also identified a substantial increase in the bidirectional volatility spillover between India-France, India-UK, and India-USA during the post-Brexit referendum period. Therefore, the investors opportunity to invest simultaneously in India, UK, EU, and US stock markets for portfolio diversification is limited. India was affected mainly by its own past shocks before the Brexit referendum. However, after the Brexit referendum, Indian markets are getting more and more integrated with other markets. In order to reap the diversification benefits, a prudent investment strategy will need to be developed in the future, especially during times of economic and political uncertainty and market crisis. Sangeetha G Nagarakatte, Natchimuthu Natchimuthu, 2022

Source

Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Vol-19, No. 1, pp. 121-134.

Date

2022-01-01

Publisher

LLC CPC Business Perspectives

Subject

Brexit referendum; Diversification; GARCH BEKK; Portfolio; Volatility transmission

Coverage

Nagarakatte S.G., School of Commerce, Finance and Accountancy, Department of Commerce, Christ University, India; Natchimuthu N., School of Commerce, Finance and Accountancy, Department of Commerce, Christ University, India

Rights

All Open Access; Gold Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 18104967

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.21511/imfi.19(1).2022.09

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