Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World

March 1, 2011

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Yishay Yafeh, and Stijn Claessens. Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

Using newly-constructed data covering the last decade, we document that, in most of forty markets, when added to the main index, firms’ returns experience an increase in comovement with the rest of the index, reflected in higher beta and greater explanatory power of the market return. Stock turnover and analyst coverage also typically increase upon inclusion. Using various tests, we find the demand-based view of comovement (the category/habitat theories of Barberis, Shleifer and Wurgler, 2005) to provide a good explanation for many of our findings. Some results, though, suggest that information-related factors are also important in explaining the increased comovement.

Subject: Asset prices, Liquidity, Pension spending, Stock markets, Stocks

Keywords: Inclusion comovement, Inclusion effect, Inclusion increase, Index concentration, Stock price, WP

Publication Details

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34
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Working Paper No. 2011/047
Stock No:

WPIEA2011047
ISBN:

9781455218950
ISSN:

1018-5941

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