This paper examines the ASEAN-5 countries and explores the impact of structural breaks on the level of financial integration in that region. An extended cointegration procedure allowing for three types of structural break, is employed and compared with the standard Johansen procedure, for daily...

This paper examines the ASEAN-5 countries and explores the impact of structural breaks on the level of financial integration in that region. An extended cointegration procedure allowing for three types of structural break, is employed and compared with the standard Johansen procedure, for daily...

This paper focuses on testing possible linkages among international gold and ASEAN emerging markets based on daily data from July 28, 2000 to March 31, 2009. The Granger causality test and the Johansen cointegration technique were applied to examine possible short-run associations and the...

The study concentrates on an analysis of the Czech stock market performed by an application of DCC MV GARCH model of Engle (2002). Data sample including years from 1994 to 2009 is represented by daily returns of Prague Stock Exchange index and other 11 major stock indices. There is found an...

This paper estimates a tri-variate VAR-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean model to examine linkages between the stock markets of three Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), specifically the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, and both the UK and Russia. The adopted framework allows to analyse...

A multivariate BEKK GARCH representation is employed to model stock market interdependence in groups of EC stock markets between 1987 and 2003. Using daily data, we estimate the effect that news or information spillovers from one market has on the next day returns in other markets. We quantify...

With the rise of interconnected global financial systems, there is an increased risk that a financial crisis in one country may spread to others. The contagion effects of the 2008 global financial crisis hit advanced economies fast and hard while sparing less developed and less integrated...

The contagion across capital markets is an important phenomenon in an increasingly integrated financial world. To investigate the contagion from the U.S., Japan, and Hong Kong to Asian emerging economies, we design a research strategy which captures fundamental interdependence among these stock...

The paper empirically analyzes stock market integration and the benefit possibilities of international portfolio diversification across the Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and U.S. equity markets. It employs daily sample of 6 ASEAN equity market indices and S&P 500 index as a proxy of U.S. market index...

This study investigates the long-run relationships and short-run dynamic linkages between the stock exchanges of Baltic countries and Swedish financial sector over the sample period 2000-2011. Johansen method of multivariate cointegration is utilized to determine long-run relationship, while...