Stock-return co-movements and institutional quality: an empirical investigation of the european emerging markets

Abstract

The study of stock market integration has been renewed with strong attention from the 2008 global financial crisis. This study examines the stock return comovements between each European Emerging markets (EEM) with the largest financial markets including US (S & P 500), UK (FTS100), German (DAX100), and France (CAC40), respectively. The European Emerging markets include Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia. The correlation between co-movements between each European emerging market with US, UK, Germany and France in line with economic integration and institutions in the period of 2002-2015 are presented. Such analysis offers an opportunity to investigate the economic and institutional integration of emerging countries in a European context (with US market as an indicator of a non-European environment)