Measuring Financial Integration: Lessons from the Correlation

41 Pages Posted: 13 Jul 2015

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Monica Billio

University of Venice - Department of Economics; Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia

Antonio Paradiso

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia

Michael Donadelli

University of Brescia

Max Riedel

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Date Written: July 8, 2015

Abstract

This paper evaluates and compares the dynamics of the financial integration process as described by different empirical approaches. To this end, a wide range of methods accounting for several dimensions of integration and a novel evaluation scheme – based on the positive association between financial integration and real exchange rate volatility – are employed. Using monthly equity market data running from April 1985 to December 2014 for two groups of countries, we find that (i) the degree of heterogeneity among the patterns generated by the proposed set of financial integration measures is rather low and (ii) the standard unconditional correlation – on average – captures equity market integration rather well and performs – in the worst case – as more sophisticated integration measures.

Keywords: Equity market integration, dynamic correlation, principal components, RER volatility

JEL Classification: F15, F44, G15

Suggested Citation

Billio, Monica and Billio, Monica and Paradiso, Antonio and Donadelli, Michael and Riedel, Max, Measuring Financial Integration: Lessons from the Correlation (July 8, 2015). University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Working Paper Series No. 23/WP/2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2629906 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2629906

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Antonio Paradiso

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Michael Donadelli

University of Brescia ( email )

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Max Riedel

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE ( email )

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