Purpose – To investigate the Central and Eastern European (CEE) equity market co-movements before, during and after major emerging market crises. To examine the impact of the crisis on the gains of international portfolio diversification in CEE. Design/methodology/approach - The study is based...

The present study represents a model of risk at the Central European Stock Exchange, measured as the yield dispersion of the CESI index. The period under analysis – 30 June 1995 – 31 May 2002 is divided into three subperiods – precrisis, crisis and postcrisis. The main characteristics of...

Our study examines the presence of the day-of-the-week effect anomaly in the Central and Eastern European stock markets. We consider the Romanian, Hungarian, Latvian, Czech, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian and Polish stock markets during the period September 22, 1997 to March 29, 2002. Our results...

Modern Portfolio Theory associates the stock market risk with volatility of the return. Volatility is measured by the variance of return but the investment community does not accepted this measure, since it weighs equally the deviations of the average return, while most investors determine the...

We investigate the nature of the Central European stock market volatility before, during and after major emerging market crises. We analyze the Central European Stock Index over the period April 30, 1996 - May 31, 2002. The data is divided into three sample periods - pre-crisis period, crisis...

The study examines the presence of the day-of-the-week effect anomaly in the Central European stock markets. We consider the Romanian, Hungarian, Latvian, Czech, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian and Polish stock markets during the period September 22, 1997 to March 29, 2002. Our results indicated that...

There are numerous studies on the privatisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) but none of them evaluates the effect of privatisation on bidders' market value. The objective of this research is the determination of the market value changes of several European banks during the time...

We investigate the Central and Eastern European equity market co-movements before, during and after major emerging market crises. Our study is based on the concept of co-integration. We examine the impact caused by the crisis on the gains of international portfolio diversification in Central and...

We consider four Central European stock market indexes over the period April 30, 1996 - August 31, 2001. We have found that the influence of the Asian crisis over the Central European markets is more severe than this of the Russian crisis. During the crises the Central European markets exhibit...