This article studies the international integration of the national stock markets of sixteen European countries. The international financial market is represented by two indices: a European index and a World index. The methodology of co-integration, used in this article, is the proper econometrical solution for the treatment of non-stationary series as those used in the present research. Complementarily, co-integration offers the possibility of distinguishing the long-term and the short-term interdependence, which very important when the variables are financial market indices. The empirical tests in this research have shown that both European and non European international factors are necessary to explain the international integration of the national stock markets under analysis.
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Paper provided by Faculty of economics, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
200833.
Length: 15 pages Date of creation: Jun 2008 Date of revision:
Sep 2008 Publication status: Published in Panoeconomicus, September 2008, pages 309-324 Handle: RePEc:voj:wpaper:200833
Find related papers by JEL classification: F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration F37 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Finance Forecasting and Simulation G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
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