The Global Financial Crisis and Equity Markets in Middle East Oil Exporting Countries

Onour, Ibrahim (2010): The Global Financial Crisis and Equity Markets in Middle East Oil Exporting Countries.

Abstract

This paper employs extreme downside risk measures to estimate the impact of the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 on equity markets in major oil producing Middle East countries. The results in the paper indicate the spillover effect of the global crisis varied from a country to another, but most hardly affected market among the group of six markets was Dubai financial market in which portfolio loss reached about 42 per cent. This indicates that Dubai debt crisis, which emerged on surface in 2009, exacerbated the impact of the global financial crisis and prolonged the recovery process in these markets.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Value at risk; Fat-tails distribution; Expected Shortfall; Extreme losses.
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates; F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance > F30 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C01 - Econometrics

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