Firm-Level Evidence on International Stock Market Comovement

Robin Brooks and Marco Del Negro

No 1244, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Abstract: We explore the link between international stock market comovement and the degree to which firms operate globally. Using stock returns and balance sheet data for companies in 20 countries, we estimate a factor model that decomposes stock returns into global, country-specific and industry-specific shocks. We find a large and highly significant link: on average, a firm raising its international sales by 10 percent raises the exposure of its stock return to global shocks by 2 percent and reduces its exposure to countryspecific shocks by 1.5 percent. This link has grown stronger since the mid-1980s.

Keywords: Diversification; risk; international financial markets; industrial structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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