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The Rise in Comovement Across National Stock Markets: Market Integration or Global Bubble?

By Robin Brooks, Marco Del Negro

September 1, 2002

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Robin Brooks, and Marco Del Negro. The Rise in Comovement Across National Stock Markets: Market Integration or Global Bubble?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

The degree of comovement across national stock markets has increased dramatically since the mid-1990s. This has overturned a stylized fact in the international portfolio diversification literature that diversifying across countries is more effective for risk reduction than diversifying across industries. We investigate if this rise in comovement is a permanent phenomenon driven by greater economic and financial integration, or a temporary effect associated with the recent stock market bubble. At the global level, our results point to the bubble. At a regional level, we find evidence of a significant rise in market integration within Europe, possibly a reflection of institutional changes such as the EMU.

Subject: Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial institutions, Financial integration, Financial markets, Market capitalization, Stock markets, Stocks

Keywords: Diversification, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Europe, Financial integration, Global, Industrial structure, Industry effect, Industry factor, Industry mean absolute deviations, International financial markets, Market capitalization, Risk, Stock markets, Stocks, TMBT firm, TMBT industry, TMBT sector, U.S. dollar, Western Europe, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    23

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2002/147

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1472002

  • ISBN:

    9781451856743

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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