This paper uses weekly data from 31 Dec 1999 to 31 Dec 2010 to investigate the time varying integration of six ASEAN stock markets (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) with four international stock markets (US, ASEAN bloc, Asia and world) and the interaction...

The first Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in 1996 has provided the principal multilateral platform for interregional cooperation between the European and Asian countries. This book examines the equity market integration among 49 ASEM members both in EU and Asia, and to investigate whether such...

This paper evaluates and compares the dynamics of the financial integration process as described by different empirical approaches. To this end, a wide range of methods accounting for several dimensions of integration and a novel evaluation scheme – based on the positive association between...

1. Theory of financial integration and achievements in the European Union / Daniel Stavarek, Iveta Repkova and Katarina Gajdosova -- 2. Financial integration at times of financial instability / Jan Babecky, Lubos Komarek and Zlatuse Komarkova -- 3. Integration of financial markets in the...

This paper studies the impact of major ECB monetary policy announcements on the portfolio allocation of euro area fund investors, using daily data between 2012 and mid-2016, a period that includes a variety of unconventional measures. We distinguish between active portfolio reallocation, driven...