Global and Regional Financial Integration in Emerging Asia: Evidence from Stock Markets

35 Pages Posted: 22 May 2017

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Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Brunel University London - Department of Economics and Finance; London South Bank University; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Luis A. Gil-Alana

University of Navarra - Department of Economics

Kefei You

University of Greenwich

Date Written: May 2017

Abstract

This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean reversion and draw inference on financial integration. It makes a three-fold contribution: it uses not only aggregate but also industry level data on stock returns; it examines the impact of the 2008 crisis; it employs a fractional integration approach to investigate the issues of interest. The evidence suggests that in emerging Asia there is more regional than global integration, and that the former has become even stronger in the post-2008 crisis period.

Keywords: Global and regional integration, Asian stock markets, fractional integration, global financial crisis

JEL Classification: F31, C22, C32

Suggested Citation

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria and Gil-Alana, Luis A. and You, Kefei, Global and Regional Financial Integration in Emerging Asia: Evidence from Stock Markets (May 2017). DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1668, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2972014 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2972014

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Kefei You

University of Greenwich ( email )

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