Does the inflation rate affect the performance of the stock market? the case of Egypt

Emerging Markets Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 263-279

  Omran, Mohammed ^a   Pointon, John ^b  

^a Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C12; C22; Co integration and error correction mechanism (ECM); E44; Egypt; G10; Inflation rate; N25; O11; Stock market

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011693461     PISSN: 15660141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0141(01)00020-6     Document Type: Article

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