Comovement between stock and bond markets and the 'flight-to-quality' during financial market turmoil - a case of the Eurozone countries most affected by the sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2011

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1655-1662

  Dajcman, Silvo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Eurozone; financial market turmoil; flight to quality; sovereign debt crisis

Indexed keywords

DEBT CRISIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; SOVEREIGNTY; STOCK MARKET;

GERMANY; IRELAND; ITALY; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

EID: 84863468195     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.652771     Document Type: Article

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