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- Title
THE PRICE LINKAGES BETWEEN COUNTRY FUNDS AND NATIONAL STOCK MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM COINTEGRATION AND CAUSALITY TESTS OF GERMANY, JAPAN AND UK FUNDS.
- Authors
Ben-Zion, Uri; Choi, Jongmoo Jay; Shmuel Hauser
- Abstract
The article examines the price linkages of three major United States-traded country funds--Germany, Japan and Great Britain--with their own national and the United States stock markets. A country fund was created as an indirect alternative, to direct portfolio investments in the country's stock markets. As such, given the scope of investments limited to a single country, it is expected a priori that fund prices have some degree of sensitivity to local market conditions (the country of investments). The degree to which fund prices are related to local market prices has important implications, for both short-term and long-term investors, in terms of their investment strategies regarding that market. Moreover, since a (US-listed) country fund is also an asset traded in the US, its pricing is also likely to be related to US market developments. The relation between the fund and the US market indicates the extent to which the country fund can be treated as a US security. The purpose of this paper is to study the pattern of cointegration and causality, between the country fund and national stock prices.
- Publication
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 1996, Vol 23, Issue 7, p1005
- ISSN
0306-686X
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5957.1996.tb01037.x