Industry return lead-lag relationships between the US and other major countries
Ana Monteiro (),
Nuno Silva () and
Helder Sebastião
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Ana Monteiro: Univ Coimbra
Nuno Silva: Univ Coimbra
Financial Innovation, 2023, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-48
Abstract:
Abstract In this study, we analyze the lead-lag relationships between the US industry index and those of six other major countries from January 1973 to May 2021. We identify the leading role played by the US internationally by showing that the weekly returns of US industries, especially the US basic materials and energy industries, significantly Granger cause the returns of most other countries’ industries, suggesting that non-US industries react with some delay to new information. This delayed reaction is even more noticeable during periods of recession in the US when cross-country correlations are higher. This implies that the ability of the lagged returns of US industries to predict industries’ returns from other countries is even more pronounced when the US experienced an economic recession. A similar asymmetric relationship is found between the volatility of US industries and that of industries in other markets. The analysis of causality in the distribution of returns and volatility shows that causality runs mainly from the US to other countries, particularly in the presence of extreme negative shocks. Finally, we demonstrate that our predictions are valuable to real-world investors. Long-short strategies generate sizable and statistically significant alphas, and a constant relative risk-averse investor obtains certainty equivalent returns well above the risk-free rate.
Keywords: International diversification; Industry equity indexes; Granger causality; Causality in distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 G14 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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