The Global Financial Crisis and the Integration of Emerging Stock Markets in Asia

Sang Hoon Kang () and Seong-Min Yoon
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Sang Hoon Kang: Pusan National University

East Asian Economic Review, 2011, vol. 15, issue 4, 49-72

Abstract: This study investigates the effects of volatility spillovers among five Asian stock markets (China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan) and examines how the global financial crisis of 2008 has influenced volatility transmission among Asian stock markets. The results from a VAR(1)-bivariate GARCH model indicate strong volatility linkages between the Chinese stock market and the four emerging stock markets since the global financial crisis, suggesting the intensification of stock market integration in Asia since the crisis increases the integration of Chinese stock market in Asia. This strong integration of the markets is important in that the intensified linkages can reduce potential gains from the diversification of international equity portfolios.

Keywords: Bivariate GARCH-BEKK Model; Global Financial Crisis; Stock Market Integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 F36 G11 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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