To what degree were Chinese financial markets integrated with the rest of the world prior to the 1949 Revolution and to what extent was the Chinese foreign exchange market efficient during this period? We estimate silver points for the Shanghai market from 1905 to 1933 to answer these questions....

This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Miller and Weller, and Driscoll. It examines the extent to which international financial markets have become more integrated over the past decade. The finding that financial...

Financial integration is a multidimensional process through which allocation of financial assets becomes increasingly borderless. This paper assesses the progress achieved thus far in capital market integration in Asia, and compares regional capital market integration with global financial...

This paper uses weekly data from 31 Dec 1999 to 31 Dec 2010 to investigate the time varying integration of six ASEAN stock markets (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) with four international stock markets (US, ASEAN bloc, Asia and world) and the interaction...

The integration and/or segmentation of the ASEAN6 capital markets can provide guidance for investment diversification. Thus, this paper attempts to investigate the integration of the ASEAN6 industries with their international benchmarks using various regression models. Ten industries classified...

In this paper, we use weekly data from 31 Dec 1999 to 31 Dec 2010 to investigate the time varying integration of six ASEAN stock markets (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) with four international stock markets (US, ASEAN bloc, Asia and world) and the interaction...

This is a chapter for a forthcoming volume Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2014) (eds. Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne). It provides an overview of EU financial regulation from the first banking directive up until its most recent developments in...