Volatility and Co-Movement : An Analysis of Stock Markets Behaviour of Selected Emerging and Developed Countries During the GFC

In this paper, we analyse historical stock market volatility and co-movement behaviour of three emerging markets and three developed economies from January 2001 to December 2012. We find evidence that the sample of emerging economies exhibits higher stock market volatility during the study period and these volatilities increases during the global financial crisis (GFC). There is also evidence that our sample of the emerging economies exhibit higher level of stock market co-movement behaviour during the study period, for example Indonesia and Malaysia exhibit higher R-square values during 2007-2012. However, we do not find any evidence of a statistically significant correlation coefficient between the volatility measures and the co-movement measures for our sample developed and emerging countries, except for Indonesia. Therefore, it is concluded that both these market models capture different aspects of stock market behaviour