Stock market comovements: nonlinear approach for 48 countries
This paper examines the stock market comovements using basically three different approaches. Firstly, we used the most common linear analysis, based on cointegration and Granger causality tests; secondly we applied a nonlinear approach, using mutual information to analyze nonlinear dependence. Since underlying data sets are affected by non-stationarities, we also applied MF-DFA and MF-DXA in order to examine the multifractality nature of data and to analyze the relationship and mutual interaction between pairs of series, respectively. The overall results are quite interesting, since we found only 170 pair of stock markets cointegrated, and according to the Granger causality and mutual information we realized that the strongest relations lies between emerging markets, and between emerging and frontier markets. According to scaling exponent given by MF-DFA, $h(q=2)>1$, we found that all underlying data belong to non-stationary process. There is no cross-over in the fluctuation functions determined by MF-DFA method confirmed that mentioned approach could remove trends embedded in the data sets. The nature of cross-correlation exponent based on Mf-DXA is almost multifractal for all stock market pairs. The empirical relation, $h_{xy}(q)=[h_{xx}(q)+h_{yy}(q)]/2$ was confirmed just for $q>0$, while for $q<0$ there was a deviation from this relation. Width of singularity spectrum is in the range $\Delta \alpha_{xx}\in [0.304,0.905]$ which is another confirmation about multifractality nature of underlying data sets. The singularity spectrum for cross-correlation is in the range $\Delta \alpha_{xy}\in [0.246,1.178]$ confirming more complex relation between stock markets. The value of $\sigma_{DCCA}$ which is a measure for quantifying degree of cross-correlation indicates that all stock market pairs in the underlying time interval belong to cross-correlated series.
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2015-02
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Authors: | Ferreira, Paulo ; Andreia Dion\'isio ; Movahed, S. M. S. |
Institutions: | arXiv.org |
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