Industry Risk and Market Integration

43 Pages Posted: 11 Jan 2001

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Francesca Carrieri

McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management

Sergei Sarkissian

McGill University; University of Edinburgh

Vihang R. Errunza

McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management

Date Written: July 2003

Abstract

Traditionally, integration has been studied at the country level. With increasing economic integration, industrial reorganization, and blurring of national boundaries (e.g., EU), it is important to investigate global integration at the industry level. We argue that country-level integration (segmentation) does not preclude industry-level segmentation (integration). Indeed, our results suggest that a country is integrated with (segmented from) the world capital markets only if most of her industries are integrated (segmented). We also show that although global industry risk is small, it can be priced for certain industries. Industries that are priced differently from either the world or domestic markets represent incremental opportunities for international diversification.

Keywords: Imperfect industry integration, Global industry risk, Conditional asset pricing, Portfolio diversification

JEL Classification: G11, G12, G15

Suggested Citation

Carrieri, Francesca and Sarkissian, Sergei and Errunza, Vihang R., Industry Risk and Market Integration (July 2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=255779 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.255779

Francesca Carrieri

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Vihang R. Errunza

McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management ( email )

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