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The objective of the paper is to investigate whether price indices of different European stock markets display a common long-run trending behaviour. Using cointegration analysis, we provide empirical evidence of common stochastic trends among five important European stock markets over the period 1975-1991.

Stock returns series generally exhibit time-varying volatility. Therefore, one can cast doubt on the way abnormal returns are calculated and consequently interpreted in traditional event studies. In this paper we apply a market model which accounts for GARCH effects leading to more efficient estimators. Using a sample of divestitures, we empirically investigate how this adjustment affects the magnitude of the abnormal returns associated with an event.

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This paper attempts to model the distributional properties of daily stock returns on several European Stock Exchanges. The empirical findings reveal the presence of non‐linear dependencies that cannot be captured by the random walk model. A model of return‐generating process that fit the data empirically is the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic GARCH (1,1) process with a conditional student‐t distribution.