Financial crisis, exchange rate and stock market integration

Yushi Yoshida

No 38, Discussion Papers from Kyushu Sangyo University, Faculty of Economics

Abstract: After the financial crisis originating from the collapse of the US housing market in 2007, financial markets, including stock markets and foreign exchange markets, experienced drastic fluctuations during an adjustment stage. We examine how the financial crisis affected the linkage between foreign exchange markets and stock markets. First, by examining the daily stock market returns of both Japan and the United States for the sample covering the 2007-2008 financial crisis, we test whether there is a shift in correlation in a smooth-transition correlation GARCH model. We find strong evidence that there was an abrupt upward shift in correlation in June of 2001. There may have been another upward shift of correlation in June of 2008, although the evidence is statistically weak. Second, after adding the JPY/USD exchange rate into a model, we find little correlation between returns of exchange rate and the Japanese stock market, although evidence indicates that there is two-way causality effect between the exchange rate and the Japanese stock market in a VAR framework. This paper provides evidence that a large financial shock may bring financial markets around the world closer to one another.

Keywords: Exchange rate; Financial crisis; Japan and US; Smooth transition; Stock market integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F36 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-12
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