The last decade has witnessed a marked improvement in information technology. Such an improvement has reduced the information cost for market participants. Thus, whether the influence of geographic factors on international financial linkage is still significant nowadays is an important question...

This article focuses on the relationship between the Dollar and the German stock market. Since there is only weak significance of a stable bivariate long-run relationship, relevant information sets are limited to shorter periods. Using rolling regressions, the results show that direction and...