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Investigating the drivers of international comovement in real financial asset returns

Crawford School of Public Policy | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis

Event details

Seminar

Date & time

Tuesday 26 November 2019
11.00am–12.00pm

Venue

Seminar Room 8, Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU

Speaker

Kate McKinnon, PhD Student, CAMA

Contacts

Rossana Pinto
61 2 6125 8108

There is a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on asset price comovement and determinants. The empirical analysis presented in this seminar differs in that it incorporates a channel for cross country comovement in asset prices, as well in a set of proposed asset price determinants, across a sample of nine OECD countries.

A Bayesian dynamic factor model is utilised to isolate common, or ‘world’, and country specific shocks in stock, bond, currency, and house markets and in variables representing monetary policy, fiscal policy, productivity, demand, relative commodity prices and macroeconomic sentiment. The results found by the author are used to gauge the degree of financial and economic integration. Individual asset returns are then regressed on factors extracted from the driving variables to examine the relative importance of the common and country shocks. Stock and bond markets in particular are found to be driven largely by shocks which are common across all countries and asset markets, though a country-level cycle in returns is also evident.

Together the world factors in the driving variables are found to be a relatively large source of shocks for all asset markets, with shocks to fiscal policy variables, productivity and sentiment appearing to underpin international linkages in asset return volatility. The country-specific component in relative commodity price growth is a large driving force for individual returns.

Kate McKinnon is a PhD scholar in CAMA in Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU.

The CAMA Macroeconomics Brown Bag Seminars offer CAMA speakers, in particular PhD students, an opportunity to present their work in progress in front of their peers, and reputable visitors to showcase their work.

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