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Financial crises and volatility spillovers among emerging European equity markets

Journal of Economic & Financial Studies

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Title Financial crises and volatility spillovers among emerging European equity markets
 
Creator Ergun, Ugur
Mahmutović, Zehra
 
Subject
Balkan transition economies; GARCH (1.1); Equity markets; Volatility spillover.
C32; C58; G11; F36.
 
Description Financial crisis not only have statistically but also economically significant impact on global equity market returns. This study analyzes whether current financial crisis affect the equity market returns of Balkan transition economies and what is the extent of such impact by employing Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity model is employed on daily data spans from 2006 to 2012 for three transition economies which are Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Empirical result indicates that volatility of Serbian stock price is influenced by the volatility of Bosnian and Croatian stock prices. There is one way volatility transmission from Bosnian and Croatian stock markets to Serbian stock market. High degree of volatility is observed in the stock markets during latest financial crises.
 
Publisher LAR Center Press
 
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Date 2014-08-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journalofeconomics.org/index.php/site/article/view/140
10.18533/jefs.v2i04.140
 
Source Journal of Economic & Financial Studies; Vol 2, No 04 (2014): August; 63-68
2379-9471
2379-9463
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journalofeconomics.org/index.php/site/article/view/140/241
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Ugur Ergun, Zehra Mahmutović
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