This study aims to explore the relationship between market integration, foreign portfolio equity holding and inflation rates on international stock market linkages between Pakistan and India. To measure stock equity interlinkage, we constructed international co-movement index through rolling...

By estimating the correlation coefficients values we compare in this study the diversification potential of the different foreign equity markets and commodities. We present the findings that reflect the perspective of Polish investor. Our results are following: we identify a significant...

This paper compares the ability of alternate performance measures to support investment selection in ten euro area stock markets. The performance ratios used in the paper are grouped in two main categories. One category comprises the performance ratios using risk measures which do not separate...

There is a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on asset price comovement and determinants. The empirical analysis in this paper differs in that it incorporates a channel for cross-country comovement in asset prices as well in a set of proposed asset price determinants, across...

We study the link between international stock return comovements and institutional investment. We test the hypothesis that the rise of institutional investors as shareholders of corporations worldwide has increased cross-country correlations and decreased cross-industry correlations. Using...

Bai and Green (2010) argue that existing studies related to international diversification of portfolio mainly concentrated on the risk-returns tradeoffs from the developed markets perspective. Very few literatures available on the behavior on emerging markets, they are scarce in comparison to...

Bai and Green (2010) argue that existing studies related to international diversification of portfolio mainly concentrated on the risk-returns tradeoffs from the developed markets perspective. Very few literatures available on the behavior on emerging markets, they are scarce in comparison to...

This article investigates international stock market integration in four major developed economies, namely the United States, the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom, and two Asian emerging, countries namely China and India, over the period from June...

We examine global integration in the market for asset management, as indicated by the correlation of mutual fund flows across domiciles. We observe no leading role for the US relative to flows in other domiciles. We do observe a strong global factor in MF flows, and global integration is linked...

While the enlargement of the Euro area to new countries has reduced the average return correlation among member countries, the financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis have led to an increase in stock return correlation among old members. We find that EMU core countries portfolio...