International portfolio diversification to Central European stock markets

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1253-1268

  Syriopoulos, Theodore ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b Technological Educational Institute ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; INVESTMENT; STOCK MARKET;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; POLAND; SLOVAKIA; WORLD;

EID: 9444290389     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000280465     Document Type: Review

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