Determinants of Stock Market Correlations. Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Reverse Causality in a Large Panel Setting

REM Working Paper 246-2022

38 Pages Posted: 11 Oct 2022

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António Afonso

ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management,Universidade de Lisboa; UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics); REM - Research in Economics and Mathematics

Krzysztof Beck

Lazarski University

Karen Jackson

University of Westminster

Date Written: September 13, 2022

Abstract

We examine 22 determinants of stock market correlations in a panel setting with 651 country pairs of developed economies over the 2001-2018 period, while accounting for model uncertainty and reverse causality. On the one hand, we find, that a number of determinants, well established in the literature, e.g. trade, institutional distance, and exchange rate volatility fail the robustness test. On the other hand, we find strong evidence supporting several others: (1) inertia, with current correlation being the best single predictor of the future stock market correlation (2) positive impact of the market size (3) imperative role of the interconnected financial factors: capital mobility, financial development, and portfolio equity flows. With the expected future growth of economies and their capital markets as well as deepening financial liberalization, this paper brings strong support to the hypothesis of diminishing international diversification potential.

Keywords: stock market correlations, stock market comovement, financial development, Bayesian model averaging, OECD countries

JEL Classification: G10, G11, G15, F62

Suggested Citation

Afonso, António and Beck, Krzysztof and Jackson, Karen, Determinants of Stock Market Correlations. Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Reverse Causality in a Large Panel Setting (September 13, 2022). REM Working Paper 246-2022, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4217779

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Krzysztof Beck

Lazarski University ( email )

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Karen Jackson

University of Westminster ( email )

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