Differential market reactions to pre and post Brexit referendum

The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016, which led to a notable shift in the financial markets. This study investigates the dynamic linkages between stock price and exchange rate for the UK and four other EU countries, considering the periods before and after the Brexit referendum. We applied the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and the detrended cross-correlation coefficient, ρDCCA, to investigate the influence of Brexit referendum event to provide fresh evidence of co-movements among the European financial markets. In this case we found positive and negative co-movements in UK and EU financial markets demonstrating a different pattern for these two periods. ρDCCA findings suggest that most of the European financial markets tend to be negatively correlated in the long term after the Brexit referendum.