Cross-Country Stock Market Comovement: A Macro Perspective

Alexis Anagnostopoulos, Orhan Erem Atesagaoglu, Elisa Faraglia and Chryssi Giannitsarou

No 16021, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Since the 1990s, there has been a simultaneous rise in cross-country stock market correlations and FDI positions. We establish an empirical relationship between these two, for pairs of developed economies that survives controlling for relevant factors. At firm level, we find that stock returns of multinationals that invest in technology capital are more correlated with world stock markets. Using a calibrated two-country asset pricing model with multinationals, we find that the increase in FDI accounts for one third of the rise in the observed stock market correlations. When allowing for increases in trade and portfolio diversification, we find that these two factors do not generate an increase in stock market correlations.

Keywords: Stock market comovement; Foreign direct investment; Multinational firms; Asset pricing; International trade; Portfolio diversification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 F44 G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-05
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