“To what extent are stock returns driven by mean and volatility spillover effects”?-Evidence from eight European stock markets
(2012) NEKP02 20121Department of Economics
- Abstract
- The paper investigates the mean and volatility spillover effects from U.S and EU stock markets as well as oil price market into national stock markets of eight European countries. The study finds strong indication of volatility spillover effects from global US, regional EU, and world factor oil towards individual stock markets. While both mean and volatility spillover transmissions from the U.S are found to be significant, E.U mean spillover effects are negligible. To evaluate the volatility spillovers, the variance ratios are computed and the results draw to attention that the individual emerging countries’ stock returns are mostly influenced by the U.S volatility spillovers rather than the EU or oil markets. Additionally, examination of... (More)
- The paper investigates the mean and volatility spillover effects from U.S and EU stock markets as well as oil price market into national stock markets of eight European countries. The study finds strong indication of volatility spillover effects from global US, regional EU, and world factor oil towards individual stock markets. While both mean and volatility spillover transmissions from the U.S are found to be significant, E.U mean spillover effects are negligible. To evaluate the volatility spillovers, the variance ratios are computed and the results draw to attention that the individual emerging countries’ stock returns are mostly influenced by the U.S volatility spillovers rather than the EU or oil markets. Additionally, examination of only global and regional stock markets spillover transmissions into European stock markets also confirms the dominating presence of U.S spillover transmissions. Furthermore, I also implement asymmetric tests on stock returns of eight markets. Some evidences of asymmetric effects are reported. In particular, the stock markets of Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine are found to respond asymmetrically to negative and positive shocks in the U.S stock returns. The weak evidence of asymmetric effects with respect to oil market shocks is found only in the case of Russia and the quantified variance ratios indicate that presence of oil market shocks are relatively higher for Russia. Moreover, a model with dummy variable confirms the effect of European Union enlargement on stock returns only for Romania. Finally, a conditional model suggests that the spillover effects are partially explained by instrumental macroeconomic variables, out of which exchange rate fluctuations play a key role in explaining the spillover parameters rather than total trade to GDP ratios in most investigated countries. (Less)
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- author
- Alikhanov, Abdulla LU
- supervisor
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- Frederik Lundtofte LU
- Lu Liu LU
- organization
- course
- NEKP02 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- oil price, mean, emerging markets, volatility spillovers, E.U, the U.S, Stock markets, exchange rates, asymmetric effects.
- language
- English
- id
- 2629421
- date added to LUP
- 2012-06-08 14:59:40
- date last changed
- 2012-06-08 14:59:40
@misc{2629421,
abstract = {{The paper investigates the mean and volatility spillover effects from U.S and EU stock markets as well as oil price market into national stock markets of eight European countries. The study finds strong indication of volatility spillover effects from global US, regional EU, and world factor oil towards individual stock markets. While both mean and volatility spillover transmissions from the U.S are found to be significant, E.U mean spillover effects are negligible. To evaluate the volatility spillovers, the variance ratios are computed and the results draw to attention that the individual emerging countries’ stock returns are mostly influenced by the U.S volatility spillovers rather than the EU or oil markets. Additionally, examination of only global and regional stock markets spillover transmissions into European stock markets also confirms the dominating presence of U.S spillover transmissions. Furthermore, I also implement asymmetric tests on stock returns of eight markets. Some evidences of asymmetric effects are reported. In particular, the stock markets of Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine are found to respond asymmetrically to negative and positive shocks in the U.S stock returns. The weak evidence of asymmetric effects with respect to oil market shocks is found only in the case of Russia and the quantified variance ratios indicate that presence of oil market shocks are relatively higher for Russia. Moreover, a model with dummy variable confirms the effect of European Union enlargement on stock returns only for Romania. Finally, a conditional model suggests that the spillover effects are partially explained by instrumental macroeconomic variables, out of which exchange rate fluctuations play a key role in explaining the spillover parameters rather than total trade to GDP ratios in most investigated countries.}},
author = {{Alikhanov, Abdulla}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{“To what extent are stock returns driven by mean and volatility spillover effects”?-Evidence from eight European stock markets}},
year = {{2012}},
}