Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Barry Harrison Author-Name: Winston Moore Title: Nonlinearities in Stock Returns for Some Recent Entrants to the EU Abstract: In this paper we use nonlinear tests to investigate the mean reverting properties of stock returns in a group of CEE markets. We also test whether returns in our target group of countries demonstrate characteristics of persistence and cross sectional dependence. Our results indicate that all series’ are stationary, but we find some ambiguity in the results of our tests for cross sectional dependence. File-URL: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/310186/Nonlinearities-in-stock-returns-for-some-recent-entrants-in-the-eu.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: First version, 2010 Creation-Date: 2010-04 Classification-JEL: C32 Keywords: nonlinearities, stock markets, Central and Eastern European Countries Handle: RePEc:nbs:wpaper:2010/1