How does the European Integration affect the European Stock Markets?:

This paper examines the integration of stock markets in Germany, France, Netherlands, Ireland and UK over January 1973-August 2008 at the aggregate market and industry level considering the following industries: basic materials, consumer goods, industrials, consumer services, health care and ?nancia...

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Main Author: Erdogan, Burcu (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Göttingen CeGE 2009
Series:CeGE discussion paper 80
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This paper examines the integration of stock markets in Germany, France, Netherlands, Ireland and UK over January 1973-August 2008 at the aggregate market and industry level considering the following industries: basic materials, consumer goods, industrials, consumer services, health care and ?nancials. The analysis is carried out by using correlation analysis, ß-convergence and s-convergence methods. ßconvergence serves to measure the speed of convergence and s-convergence serves to measure the degree of ?nancial integration. It might be expected a priori that European stock markets have converged during the process of monetary, economic and ?nancial integration in Europe. This study o?ers evidence for an increasing degree of integration both at the aggregate level and also at the industry level, although some di?erences in the speed and degree of convergence exist among stock markets. Surprisingly, there is an upswing of cross sectional dispersion for health care industry, which is more prone to regional shocks. The other industries show a signi?cant s-convergence. The average half-life of a shock to convergence changes at a range from 5.75 days for aggregate market to 10.25 days for consumer goods. -- Financial integration ; EU ; stock markets ; ß-convergence ; s-convergence ; correlation analysis
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