The New Economy and Global Stock Returns
This paper revisits the relative importance of global versus country-specific factors underlying stock returns. It constructs a new firm level data set covering emerging and developed markets and estimates a simple factor model, which breaks down stock returns into a global business cycle factor, gl...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
International Monetary Fund
2000
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Series: | IMF Working Papers
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Collection: | International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | This paper revisits the relative importance of global versus country-specific factors underlying stock returns. It constructs a new firm level data set covering emerging and developed markets and estimates a simple factor model, which breaks down stock returns into a global business cycle factor, global industry factors, country-specific factors and firm-level effects. The results indicate that the share of variation in stock returns explained by global industry factors has grown sharply since the mid-1990s, at the expense of country-specific factors. Foremost among the global factors is a "new economy" factor, which has become a key determinant of global stock returns |
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Physical Description: | 39 pages |
ISBN: | 9781451875089 |