Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/239000 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Risk and Financial Management [ISSN:] 1911-8074 [Volume:] 12 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1-20
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study spillover effects on the stock markets of six African and nine Middle Eastern emerging economies before, during, and after the implementation of unconventional monetary policies by the United States Federal Reserve (US Fed). Weekly data covering the pre-quantitative easing (pre-QE) period, the three phases of QE, and the QE-tapering period were adopted. The methodologies employed here for detecting dual causality were as follows: classical, dynamic, and time-varying Granger causality tests. The results indicate that the Fed's non-conventional actions weakened the Fed's monetary policies' impact on the stock indices of these emerging countries. Interestingly, there is evidence that two African and three Middle Eastern countries-all different according to each of the specifications used in the methodology-were affected by the tapering of unconventional US monetary practices.
Subjects: 
unconventional monetary policy
stock indices
Africa
Middle East
JEL: 
E52
E58
G12
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Document Type: 
Article

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