“…Thirdly, market interdependence increases as economic integration intensifies, such as increased bilateral trade (Bracker, Docking, & Koch, 1999;Johnson & Soenen, 2002;Pretorius, 2002;Tavares, 2009;Walti, 2011;Abbas, Khan, & Shah, 2013). Fourthly, market interdependence is most likely high in volatile bear markets (Longin & Solnik, 2001;Ang & Bekaert, 2002;Aityan, Ivanov-Schitz, & Izotov, 2010;Jinjarak & Zheng, 2014). Lastly, there has been an increase in international market interdependence over the past three decades (Longin & Solnik, 1995;Bruno, Boucrelle, & Yann, 1996;Baele & Inghelbrecht, 2010;Aityan, Ivanov-Schitz, & Izotov, 2010).…”