Modeling equity market integration using smooth transition analysis:a study of Eastern European stock markets

Abstract

This paper assesses the extent to which the equity markets of Hungary, Poland the Czech Republic and Russia have become less segmented. Using a variety of tests it is shown there has been a consistent increase in the co-movement of some Eastern European markets and developed markets. Using the variance decompositions from a vector autoregressive representation of returns it is shown that for Poland and Hungary global factors are having an increasing influence on equity returns, suggestive of increased equity market integration. In this paper we model a system of bivariate equity market correlations as a smooth transition logistic trend model in order to establish how rapidly the countries of Eastern Europe are moving away from market segmentation. We find that Hungary is the country which is becoming integrated the most quickly. © 2005 ELsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2005.04.007
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Accounting
Uncontrolled Keywords: equity market integration,international diversification,logistic trend function,Economics and Econometrics,Finance
Publication ISSN: 1873-0639
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2019 10:01
Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2009 15:22
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Published Date: 2005-09
Authors: Chelley-Steeley, Patricia L.

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