“…While such country‐ or regional‐wise analyses have their uses for certain types of market participants, they provide little awareness for investors interested in the dynamics of global (i.e., system‐wide) stock market fears transmission. A reasonable assessment of fear propagation on a global scale, apart from regional and country‐specific fears, is a critical factor even for forecasting the stock market fear of individual countries (Bouri, Lien, et al, 2018; Hasan, Naeem, Arif, Shahzad, & Nor, 2020).…”