Co-Movements in International Equity Markets

Download or read book Co-Movements in International Equity Markets written by Salim M. Darbar and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the co-movements of equity returns in four major international markets by characterizing the time-varying cross-country covariances and correlations. Using a generalized positive definite multivariate GARCH model, we find that the Japanese and U.S. stock markets have significant transitory covariance, but zero permanent covariance. The other pairs of markets examined display significant permanent and transitory covariance. We also find that, while conditional correlations between returns are generally small, they change considerably over time. An event analysis suggests that basing diversification strategies on these conditional correlations is potentially beneficial.