Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41379 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CFR working paper No. 08-10
Publisher: 
University of Cologne, Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Cologne
Abstract: 
This paper addresses and resolves the problems caused by microstructure effects when measuring the relative importance of home and U.S. market in the price discovery process of internationally cross listed stocks. In order to avoid large bounds for information shares, previous studies applying the Cholesky decomposition within the Hasbrouck (1995) framework had to rely on high frequency data. However, this entails a potential bias of estimated information shares induced by microstructure effects. We propose a modified approach that relies on distributional assumptions and yields unique and unbiased information shares. Our results indicate that the role of the U.S. market in the price discovery process of Canadian interlisted stocks has been severely underestimated to date. Moreover, we find that rather than stock specific factors, market design determines information shares.
Subjects: 
international cross-listings
market microstructure effects
price discovery
JEL: 
F3
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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