The purpose of this paper is to test whether cointegration and causality relationships exists among the Europrean Stock Markets come to be known as the PIIGS, an acronym for Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. By testing whether such kind of relationships exist among these stock markets,...

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This paper investigates whether cointegration and causality relationships exist among the stock markets of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) during the period 2005-2011. To accomplish our objective, we divide the sample period into two sub-periods (1 February...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship of price changes in the southern European E.U. member states through their stock markets and especially among the exchange markets of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, known also as the PIIGS countries. More specifically, it is...