Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Market Spillovers: Case of Selected CEE Markets

Tihana Škrinjarić and Zrinka Orlović
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Zrinka Orlović: Department of Managerial Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Trg J. F. Kennedyja 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-33

Abstract: Rising political and economic uncertainty over the world affects all participants on different markets, including stock markets. Recent research has shown that these effects are significant and should not be ignored. This paper estimates the spillover effects of shocks in the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index and stock market returns and risks for selected Central and Eastern European markets (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia). Based on rolling estimations of the vector autoregression (VAR) model and the Spillover Indices, detailed insights are obtained on the sources of shock spillovers between the variables in the system. Recommendations are given based on the results both for policymakers and international investors. The contribution of the paper consists of the dynamic estimation approach, alongside allowing for the feedback relationship between the variables of interest, as well as examining the mentioned spillovers for the first time for majority of the observed countries.

Keywords: economic policy uncertainty; spillover index; emerging stock markets; dynamic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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