Journal article
Relationship between different sources of geopolitical risks and stock markets in the GCC region: a dynamic correlation analysis
Review of behavioral finance, v 14(2)
04 Apr 2022
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Abstract
Purpose-The findings would help in designing useful and relevant hedging strategies against geopolitical risks (GPRs), which are rampant in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
Design/methodology/approach-This study focuses on the regional and global costs of GPRs for businesses in the Gulf region.
Findings-The results of the analysis show that the time-varying conditional correlation between the stock returns of the GCC countries and the Saudi Arabian geopolitical risk is consistently negative, suggesting that the Saudi Arabian geopolitical risk hurts the GCC stock markets, thus underscoring the importance of studying regional GPRs.
Originality/value-The contribution of this paper is twofold: First, it uses a newly geopolitical risk index that includes recent geopolitical events not included in the Caldara and Iacoviello (2018) index. In addition to war threats and acts, terrorist threats and acts and nuclear threats, the authors consider global trade tensions (GTTs), Saudi Arabia's geopolitical risk and OPEC news mainly related to OPEC oil production levels. Second, it assesses whether Saudi Arabia, which is the largest economy in the region and the main global oil exporter, is really a risk exporter to the rest of the GCC countries.
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- Title
- Relationship between different sources of geopolitical risks and stock markets in the GCC region: a dynamic correlation analysis
- Creators
- Abdullah Alqahtani - Suffolk Univ, Boston, MA 02114 USAShawkat Hammoudeh - Drexel Univ, Lebow Coll Business, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USARefk Selmi - Pau Business Sch, Pau, France
- Publication Details
- Review of behavioral finance, v 14(2)
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing
- Number of pages
- 21
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000607810000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85099421305
- Other Identifier
- 991019167763504721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Business, Finance