This paper examines how investors assimilate information obtained from a set of German and U.S. macroeconomic news releases, and register their response on German closed-end fund net asset values (NAVs) and share prices. Specifically, three German Funds traded in the NYSE are chosen and their...

This study investigates the behavior of nine Asian closed-end country funds traded on the NYSE over the period 1990–2001. The results indicate that fund discounts follow a mean-reverting process and, furthermore, display various cross-border patterns of influence that are contingent on the...

The degree of integration among different economies is an important issue in international economics and finance. This article employs daily stock market data for the period 1988 through 1999 to investigate the return dynamics and the extent of the stock market linkages across six newly...