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The shift of perspective from a national basis to a Euro area basis, inevitably induced by EMU, has led member countries to a parallel shift from equity home bias to equity Euro bias. We interpret this evidence by means of a standard mean-variance portfolio selection model modified in order to...
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The aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of integration between stock market of Romania and other stock markets of European Union (EU) countries. Correlations between the stock returns represent the level of integration between the stock markets. Empirical analysis are performed...
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The bilateral foreign portfolio equities among Euro area members have shrunk by 40 percent after 2007. While both the financial crisis and the enlargement are potentially responsible of this abrupt and persistent contraction in financial integration, our work detects a major role for the crisis....
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In this paper we propose a framework for predicting market returns and volatility using changes in the country's political risk. We identify the appropriate lag to calculate changes over, and show how the changes should be included in mean and volatility equations. The appropriate level of...
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While the enlargement of the Euro area to new countries has reduced the average return correlation among member countries, the financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis have led to an increase in stock return correlation among old members. We find that EMU core countries portfolio...
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We examine time-varying international equity market integration using the VAR-based rolling cointegration analysis and coefficients of the error correction terms. Using Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as proxies for international equity markets allows us to take advantages of avoiding discrepancy...
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This research examines the dynamic relationship between foreign portfolio equity flows and equity returns on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The primary objective of this research is to uncover how equity market returns influence foreign cross border portfolio equity flows and in turn how...
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Factor analytic techniques were applied to 18 real estate equity markets using weekly FTSE EPRA/NAREIT data during the period 1997 to 2009. Our results from the exploratory factor analysis suggest three distinct factors during 1997 to 2007. With a single exception, the national returns fall...
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In the age of transnational capitalism, significant amounts of capital are flowing from developed world to emerging economies like India. An important feature of the development of stock market in India has been the growing participation of Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) in the last 15...
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