The Dynamics of Volatility Connectedness and Implication for Market Integration in China's Financial Markets
23 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2018
Date Written: May 20, 2018
Abstract
We study volatility connectedness effects and market integration among the China’s five financial markets: stock, real estate, bond, commodity futures and foreign exchange (currency). We use several measures of market connectedness to assess the degree of volatility connectivity shocks across China’s five financial markets and its implication for market integration via linear and nonlinear Granger causality analysis. We also conduct impulse responses function analysis to obtain fresh insights into the transmitting mechanism of the financial market movements within the Chinese economy during the China stock market crash period. Our results indicate that the five China’s major financial markets are not strongly integrated. Over the full study period, the commodity futures market is the largest net “sender” of volatility connectedness shocks to other markets, followed by the stock market and the FX market. In contrast, the bond and real estate markets are the net “recipients” of volatility connectedness shocks. The five China’s financial markets influenced and has been influenced though their non-linear causal linkages between the respective net total directional connectedness indices, implying that the markets examined in this study are relatively inefficient. Finally, during the China stock market crash period, stock and real estate reacted with similar patterns and larger positive or negative responses to shocks. In contrast, bond and commodity futures appear to have milder levels of shocks response and fluctuate with less magnitudes over time.
Keywords: Financial Markets, Public Real Estate, Volatility Connectedness, Granger Causality Test, Market Integration Generalized Impulse Response Functions
JEL Classification: F3, G15
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