What influences stock market co-movements between China and its Asia-Pacific trading partners after the Global Financial Crisis?

Yujie Shi

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2022, vol. 72, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the stock market co-movements between China and its 12 trading partners in the Asia-Pacific region after the Global Financial Crisis. The Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) - Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) model is adopted to extract short and long-run correlations. The author utilizes the weekly conditional correlations to detect contagion and explores transmission mechanisms by regressing the monthly economic and financial variables on the monthly conditional correlations. The empirical results show that recent events (specifically, the Shanghai stock market crash, the US-China tariff war, and the COVID-19 pandemic) have increased the contagion incidences across the stock markets in China and its trading partners. Moreover, bilateral trade and market similarities are major drivers of stock market co-movements between China and developed partners as well as between China and emerging partners. Apart from country-pair-specific factors, common factors (such as the Chinese illiquidity pressure) also affect the co-movements between Chinese and its partners' stock markets during the whole and turmoil periods. Besides, the regression results for contagion episodes are mixed. On the one hand, stock market co-movements are irrelevant to most economic fundamentals, indicating pure contagion. On the other hand, differences in industrial production growth and market size affect stock market co-movements between China and its emerging partners.

Keywords: Stock market co-movement; Contagion; Transmission mechanism; Shanghai stock market crash; US-China tariff war; COVID-19 pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G11 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2022.101722

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