This article studies the financial integration between the six main Latin American markets and the US market in a nonlinear framework. Using the threshold cointegration techniques of Hansen and Seo (2002), we show significant threshold stock market linkages between Mexico, Chile and the US. Thus, the dynamics of these markets depends simultaneously on local and global risk factors. More importantly, our results show an on-off threshold financial integration process that is activated only when the stock price adjustment exceeds some level.
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Length: Date of creation: May 2009 Date of revision: Publication status: Published in Economics Bulletin 29, 1 (2009) 162-168 Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:0905.3874
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Geert Bekaert & Campbell R. Harvey & Angela Ng, 2005.
"Market Integration and Contagion,"
Journal of Business,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 78(1), pages 39-70, January.
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"Threshold Cointegration,"
International Economic Review,
Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 38(3), pages 627-45, August.
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