Search results for "Market integration"

Export market integration in the European Union

2004

This paper examines the degree and recent evolution (1988-2001) of export-price dispersion among European Union countries. It also explores the effect of exchange rates on exportprice dispersion by reviewing the experience of some European countries that participated in the exchange rate stability zone. The results indicate that export-price dispersion across European Union countries was usually lower than across OECD countries. Moreover, although there is little evidence of convergence, this is stronger across European Union countries. Finally, even though price dispersion was often lower across European Union countries where exchange rates have been relatively stable than across countries…

Multi-currency regime and markets in early nineteenth-century Finland

2020

Pre-industrial money supply typically consisted of multiple, often foreign currencies. Standard economic theory implies that this entails welfare loss due to transaction costs imposed by currency exchange. Through a study of novel data on Finnish nineteenth-century parish-level currency conditions, we show that individual currencies had principal areas of circulation, with extensive co-circulation restricted to the boundary regions in between. We show that trade networks, defined here through the regional co-movement of grain prices, proved crucial in determining the currency used. Market institutions and standard price mechanisms had an apparent role in the spread of different currencies a…

The effect of the Nordic list merger on Finnish stock prices : an application of the Merton model

2007

Effects of economic policy uncertainty on stock and bond market integration

2015

Tässä pro gradu – tutkielmassa tarkastellaan sitä , miten talouspoliitti nen epävarmuu s vaikut taa osake - ja korko markkina tuottojen väliseen yhteyteen . Tutkimuksessa saadut e mpiiriset havainnot viittaavat siihen, että kun reaalit alouden kasvu ylittää inflaati o- vauhdin , talouspoliittisen epävarmuuden kasvu on tekijä, joka vähentää osake - ja ko r- ko markkina tuottojen korrelaatiota . Sen sijaan kun inflaatio vauht i ylittää reaalitalouden kasvun, jota tässä tutkielmassa on mitattu S&P 500 i ndeksin osinkojen jaolla, kasvava talouspoliittinen epävarmuus vahvistaa osake - ja korkomarkkinatuottojen korrelaatiota . Tutkimus on toteutettu Yhdysvaltojen rahoitusmarkk inoiden aineistolle…