 Crisis periods and contagion effects in the CEE stock markets: the influence of the 2007 US subprime crisisJoanna Olbrys and Elzbieta Majewska International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, 124-137 Abstract: The main goal of this paper is a direct identification of crisis periods in the eight Central and Eastern European (CEE) equity markets, and, for comparison, in the US market. A statistical procedure of dividing market states into up and down markets is employed. The results confirm October 2007-February 2009 as the common period of the recent global financial crisis in the CEE markets, except for Slovakia. Moreover, the effect of increasing cross-market correlations in the crisis period in the context of contagion is investigated, applying both standard contemporaneous correlations and volatility-adjusted correlation coefficients. A research hypothesis that there was no contagion effect among the US and the CEE stock markets during the 2007-2009 crisis is explicitly tested. The robustness analysis of contagion tests based on monthly, weekly and daily data is provided. The results reveal that the utilised tests are rather less sensitive with respect to the choice of data frequency. Keywords: CEE stock markets; financial crisis; market states; cross-market correlations; crisis periods; contagion effects; US subprime crisis; Central and Eastern Europe. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijcome:v:6:y:2016:i:2:p:124-137 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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