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...

Modern Portfolio Theory associates the stock market risk with the volatility of return. Volatility is measured by the variance of the returns' distribution. However, the investment community does not accept this measure, since it weights equally deviations of the average returns, whereas most...

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...

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...