Long-Term Trends and Short-Run Dynamics in International Stock Markets

Harilaos Harissis, Mesomeris S. and Staikouras S.

European Research Studies Journal, 2001, vol. IV, issue 3-4, 103-120

Abstract: The objective of the present study is to examine the behaviour and interaction of international stock markets. The validity of an earnings based valuation model is assessed using data from seventeen developed countries around the world over the last sixteen years. The estimation process employed involves a two–step Engel–Granger procedure where cointegrating relationships between market indices and their fundamentals are analysed. Cointegration appears mainly in large markets, while the presence of an error correction representation implies the existence of the reversion force towards the fair value obtained from the cointegrating regression. Further, the error correction model, enriched with other variables identified in previous research, seems to capture the short–run dynamics quite well. The coefficients of the variables in both the cointegrating regression and the error correction representation have the correct signs and are consistent in size. Granger causality tests do not particularly support the hypothesis that smaller markets are being influenced by external factors, since causality seems to run both from large to small markets and vice versa.

Keywords: International markets; Market indices; Cointegration; Error correction model; Short–run dynamics; Causality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C52 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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