“…Furthermore, prior studies have not adopted the non‐linear panel ARDL approach for regional analysis, incorporated ER as a regressor and did not include the role of the 2008 economic contraction in influencing non‐linear ties between currency rate instability and stock returns of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, and Bangladesh. Few papers on the non‐linear response of SM to ER fluctuations have utilized the time series‐based asymmetrical approaches (Chen et al, 2022; Hashmi et al, 2022; Xu et al, 2022; Zhu et al, 2022). However, these studies ignored the role of the crisis regime in affecting the vice versa response of ER returns to SM conditions.…”