Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets

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Giorgio Canarella

California State University, Los Angeles - Department of Economics & Statistics; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Bertil Holmlund

Uppsala University - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Stephen K. Pollard

TUI University

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Date Written: 2007

Abstract

In this paper we extend the standard shock spillover model of Bekaert and Harvey (1997), Baele (2003) and Ng (2000) to account for asymmetries of return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into Canada and Mexico. Unlike previous research, we model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power model of Ding, Granger and Engle (1993). The empirical results indicate that volatility spillover effects, but not mean spillover effects, exhibit an asymmetric behavior, with negative shocks from the US equity market impacting on the conditional volatility of the Canadian and Mexican equity markets more deeply than positive shocks.

Keywords: APARCH, Asymmetric Spillovers, North American Stock Markets

JEL Classification: G15, C32, C53, F31

Suggested Citation

Canarella, Giorgio and Holmlund, Bertil and Pollard, Stephen K., Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets (2007). Economics Discussion Paper No. 2007-35, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1716638 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1716638

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