Arbeitspapier

International stock return comovements

We examine international stock return comovements using country-industry and country-style portfolios as the base portfolios. We first establish that parsimonious risk-based factor models capture the covariance structure of the data better than the popular Heston- ouwenhorst (1994) model. We then establish the following stylized facts regarding stock return comovements. First, we do not find evidence for an upward trend in return correlations, except for the European stock markets. Second, the increasing importance of industry factors relative to country factors was a short-lived, temporary phenomenon.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 931

Classification
Wirtschaft
Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Subject
APT model
Comovements
correlation dynamics
Factor models
global market integration
industry country debate
international diversification
Finanzmarkt
Kapitaleinkommen
Portfolio-Management
Industrieländer

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bekaert, Geert
Hodrick, Robert J.
Zhang, Xiaoyan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2008

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bekaert, Geert
  • Hodrick, Robert J.
  • Zhang, Xiaoyan
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Time of origin

  • 2008

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