Volatility contagion across the equity markets of developed and emerging market economies

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Using variance risk premiums (VRPs) nonparametrically calculated from equity markets in selected major developed economies and emerging market economies (EMEs) over 2007 - 2015, we document the correlation of VRPs across the markets and examine whether equity fund flows work as a path through which VRPs spill over globally. First, we find that VRPs tend to spike up during market turmoil such as the peak of the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis. Second, we find that all cross-equity market correlations of VRPs are positive, and that some economy pairs exhibit high levels of the correlation. In terms of volatility contagion, we find that an increase in VRPs in the United States significantly reduces equity fund flows to other developed economies, but not those to EMEs, in the period after the global financial crisis. Two-stage least squares estimation results show that equity fund flows are a channel for spillover of VRPs in the United States to VRPs in other developed economies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ADBI Working Paper ; No. 590

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements ; Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates ; International Financial Markets ; Pension Funds; Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
• Subject: equity market ; equity fund flow ; cross-equity market ; spillover effects ; global financial crisis ; financial market volatility ; variance risk premium ; emerging market economies ; eurozone ; interest rate ; nonparametric analysis ; ordinary least squares ; OLS ; univariate ; market correlation ; regression analysis

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hattori, Masazumi ; Shim, Ilhyock ; Sugihara, Yoshihiko
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
• (where): Tokyo
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161466
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