The EMU effects on asset market holdings and the recent financial crisis

Georgios Palaiodimos () and Elias Tzavalis

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2015, vol. 42, issue C, 153-161

Abstract: This paper examines if there are significant integration effects from the establishment of European Monetary Union (EMU) and the introduction of euro on EMU and non-EMU equity and bond markets. This is done by looking at the holdings of these markets. We investigate to what extent these effects have been affected by the recent global financial crisis. This is done based on gravity model determining bilateral asset holding among the EMU countries, non-EMU European countries and the rest of world. This model can control for the effects of other economic (gravity-type) variables on the effects of the EMU on financial markets, like the size of the capital markets across countries, the geographical distance, information asymmetries etc. Ignoring these effects may exaggerate the actual EMU integration effects. The paper provides clear cut evidence that the establishment of the EMU had significant integration effects on equity and bond markets. It significantly increased the EMU bond and equity holdings by the EMU and non-EMU investors. These effects have become important since year 2001. However, they have considerably reduced after year 2007, due to the recent global financial crisis. Across the EMU countries, we have found that the strongest disintegration effects of the above crisis were observed for the peripheral countries of the EMU. These effects became evident before the start of the European debt crisis in early 2010.

Keywords: Market integration; Gravity models; Asset markets holdings; EMU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F30 F36 F41 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2015.04.003

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