Stock-bond co-movements and cross-country linkages
- Publisher:
- InderScience
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 2010, 2 (2), pp. 111 - 129
- Issue Date:
- 2010-01
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This study analyzes the correlation of stock and bond indices for eight developed countries. We compare a country's stock-bond linkages with cross-country linkages and find that the former exhibit a negative trend in contrast to the positive trend observed for cross-country stock market and bond market linkages. We show that the decline of the stock-bond correlation in recent years can be explained with a more frequent portfolio rebalancing of investors due to the globalization of securities markets and implied lower international diversification benefits across similar asset classes. A test for temporal commonalities of changes in cross-country and stock-bond linkages indicates that flight-to-quality from stocks to bonds and cross-country stock market contagion occurs simultaneously.
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