THE FINANCIAL INTEGRATION OF THE BRICS.

The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the robustness of the Chinese economic system, the characteristics of the BRIC countries in the perspective of crisis contagion prevention, the role of the BRIC economies in the global economy, and the volatility of stock returns in Brazil, Russia, India and China. I am specifically interested in how previous research investigated structural breaks in autocorrelation of stock returns on BRIC markets, China's relative financial power, the role of BRICs in the global economy, and BRICs' mild slowdown and quick recovery from the global financial crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]