Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161662 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1669
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper examines global and regional stock market integration in Asia at both the aggregate and disaggregate (industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised as follows. In the pre-2008 crisis period, no integration/convergence of any kind is found. By contrast, in the post-crisis period, the Asian stock markets appear to be integrated both globally and regionally at the aggregate level; at the industry level, there is evidence of both global and regional integration in 6 out of 10 cases, the exceptions being Financials and Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence tests reveal the existence of convergence clubs and divergent economies within the full panel, which explains why panel convergence is not found for the pre-crisis period and for the Gas & Oil and Technology sectors in the post-crisis period.
Subjects: 
Asian stock markets
global and regional integration
Phillips-Sul tests
panel and club convergence
JEL: 
C32
C33
G11
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
616.43 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.