Equity returns and integration: Is Europe changing?

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 555-570

  Adjaouté, Kpate ^a   Danthine, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a HSBC   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; FINANCIAL MARKET; PRICE DETERMINATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12344288476     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grh032     Document Type: Article

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