Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach

Most of the past studies regarding the comovement of the international stock markets deal with the potential gains to investors from international portfolio diversification. In general, these studies suggested that considerable gains were available to investors who diversify internationally due to t...

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Main Author: Othman Yong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1992
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7950/
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description Most of the past studies regarding the comovement of the international stock markets deal with the potential gains to investors from international portfolio diversification. In general, these studies suggested that considerable gains were available to investors who diversify internationally due to the usually low positive or negative correlations between national stock markets. This study, on the other hand, looks at this issue from the perspective of a nonparametric approach as apposed to the commonly used parametric approach in the past studies, due to the problem of nonnormality with data under study. This study uses weekly indices of the markets of the Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States for a period from January 1984 to December 1988. The results of this study indicate that the comovements among these markets are not stable with time, which means that it is difficult to construct an optimal investment strategy based on comovements of these markets.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:79502016-12-14T06:45:44Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7950/ Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach Othman Yong, Most of the past studies regarding the comovement of the international stock markets deal with the potential gains to investors from international portfolio diversification. In general, these studies suggested that considerable gains were available to investors who diversify internationally due to the usually low positive or negative correlations between national stock markets. This study, on the other hand, looks at this issue from the perspective of a nonparametric approach as apposed to the commonly used parametric approach in the past studies, due to the problem of nonnormality with data under study. This study uses weekly indices of the markets of the Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States for a period from January 1984 to December 1988. The results of this study indicate that the comovements among these markets are not stable with time, which means that it is difficult to construct an optimal investment strategy based on comovements of these markets. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1992 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7950/1/1614-3047-1-SM.pdf Othman Yong, (1992) Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach. Jurnal Pengurusan, 11 . pp. 63-73. ISSN 0127-2713 http://ejournals.ukm.my/pengurusan/issue/view/
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Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
title Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
title_full Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
title_fullStr Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
title_full_unstemmed Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
title_short Comovement of International Stock Market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
title_sort comovement of international stock market from the perspective of a nonparametric approach
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