The integration of Latin American bond markets: a copula analysis approach (1999-2015)

Edgar Ortiz (), Francisco López-Herrera, Roberto J. Santillán-Salgado and Alejandro Fonseca-Ramírez
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Francisco López-Herrera ()

International Journal of Bonds and Derivatives, 2016, vol. 2, issue 3, 267-283

Abstract: This paper examines the relationships among government bonds markets, represented by EMBI returns for six Latin American markets: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. It applies a bivariate copula approach that identifies by pairs of markets the importance of that relationship. The sample data includes EMBI information about the six most important Latin American bond markets, including, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Daily data covers the period May 28, 1999 to May 13, 2008. The empirical evidence shows that the association among these markets remains partially segmented. These results suggest that there are good opportunities to take advantage of diversification for investors' portfolios. Additionally, from the point of view of policy makers this evidence suggests that independently of any integration scheme, each country should strengthen their own macroeconomic policies, particularly their monetary policies. Finally, for corporations in the region results of this work, i.e., market segmentation of their respective bond markets implies less liquidity and efficiency of their domestic markets, as well as restricted opportunities for corporate regional cooperation.

Keywords: financial integration; bond markets; Latin America; copula analysis; government bonds; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Mexico; Peru; portfolio diversification; market segmentation; corporate regional cooperation; liquidity; domestic markets. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=78620 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbder:v:2:y:2016:i:3:p:267-283

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Bonds and Derivatives from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().