Cross Border Listings And Price Discovery Evidence From Chinese Companies Triple Listed In Shanghai Hong Kong And New York

This paper extends prior cross listing literature by examining the Chinese stocks triple listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange SEHK Shanghai Stock Exchange SSE and New York Stock Exchange NYSE We find that the returns of the triple listed stocks and the indexes are co integrated in the long run across the three markets indicating both an absence of arbitrage opportunities and long term equilibrium By employing the Granger Causality test we found that the foreign market NYSE plays the dominant role in price discovery where information is impounded into prices therefore rejecting the home bias hypothesis that the home market generates the most useful information about price movement While the stock returns of NYSE were able to influence the returns of both the SSE and the SEHK the SSE market could not affect the NYSE and only on rare occasions affects the SEHK The same methodology to examine the co integration and price discovery were employed for 4 distinctive sub periods 2000 2003 2003 2007 2007 2009 and 2009 2013 It was found that while China was a relatively independent market prior to the financial crisis its integration with the global markets has increased ever since