Foreign News and Spillovers in Emerging European Stock Markets

36 Pages Posted: 28 Jul 2010

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Evžen Kočenda

Charles University in Prague - Institute of Economic Studies; Institute of Information Theory and Automation (Czech Academy of Sciences) - Department of Econometrics; CESifo; University of Regensburg - Institute for East and Southeast European Studies; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The William Davidson Institute

Jan Hanousek

Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: May 1, 2010

Abstract

We analyze foreign news and spillovers in the emerging EU stock markets (the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland). We employ high-frequency five-minute intraday data on stock market index returns and four classes of EU and U.S. macroeconomic announcements during 2004–2007. We account for the difference of each announcement from its market expectation and we jointly model the volatility of the returns accounting for intraday movements and day-of-the-week effects. Our findings show that intraday interactions on the new EU markets are strongly determined by mature stock markets as well as the macroeconomic news originating thereby. We show that strong contemporaneous links across markets are present even after controlling for macroeconomic announcements. Finally, in terms of specific announcements, we are able to show the exact sources of macro news spillovers from the developed foreign markets to the three new EU markets under research.

Keywords: finance, intra-day data, macroeconomic news, European emerging stock markets

JEL Classification: C52, F36, G15, P59

Suggested Citation

Kocenda, Evzen and Hanousek, Jan, Foreign News and Spillovers in Emerging European Stock Markets (May 1, 2010). William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 983, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1649507 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1649507

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Jan Hanousek

Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno ( email )

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London
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