This paper explores reactions to the stock markets shocks during quiet and turbulent times. In our investigation we use daily values of 28 stock exchanges indexes: 14 from developed markets and 14 from emerging markets. We find the global crisis induced, for most of the indexes, significant...

In the recent context, capital markets are often affected by extreme events which generate sharp changes to the stock prices. According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, all the information that causes such shocks is incorporated in the same day in stock prices. However, empirical researches...

Since the adhesion to European Union, the influence of the international financial markets on the Romanian capital market intensified. In this paper we investigate the impact of the shocks from New York Stock Exchange on the Bucharest Stock Exchange evolution. We found that a significant...

This paper explores the impact of the large stock prices increases (positive shocks) and decreases (negative shocks) from the New York Stock Exchange on the returns and volatility of some European developed capital markets. We found that more than a half of shocks from these European stock...

This paper explores some changes induced on the Romanian foreign exchange market by the global crisis. We study these changes from the perspective of number and intensity of the shocks occurred before and after the global crisis. We found some significant differences, explainable not only by the...