With Economic Integration Comes Financial Contagion? Evidence from China

Jiaxing You, Chun Liu and Guqian Du

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2014, vol. 50, issue 3, 62-80

Abstract: China's economy has maintained a rapid growth rate over the past two decades; however, its stock market has exhibited a very different level of performance during financial crises. In this paper, we try to explain this phenomenon and answer two important questions: Is there financial contagion in China? Can economic integration aggravate financial contagion? We construct a composite index of economic integration by reviewing the incremental reform and opening-up process in China's financial markets. We utilize a dynamic conditional correlation model to capture the correlations between stock returns of China and those of other important markets around the world. The empirical results provide positive evidence for the aforementioned two questions.

Keywords: DCC model; financial contagion; financial liberalization; trade liberalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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