This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been integrating financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s, using bilateral data on portfolio investments, syndicated bank loans, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and...

This preliminary study employs VECH-Multivariate Generalized Conditional Heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) model to test the cluster volatility of asset returns transmission impact among four Asian-Pacific equity markets: Australia, India, Hong Kong and Japan. Daily asset returns of the stock exchange...

The Asia-Pacific region is arguably the most important region of our time. The Asia-Pacific — incorporating Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania — covers 30 per cent of global landmass, contains 60 per cent of the world's population, and contributes more than 30 per cent of...

Using a novel database on capital flow measures in Asia over 2004−2013, we investigate the impact of bond inflow measures on the cross-market correlations of weekly bond fund flows and of daily bond returns in 12 Asia-Pacific economies, after controlling for global, regional and local factors....

This paper examines the benefits of regionally and globally diversified portfolios from the perspective of investors holding domestic-only portfolios from different Asia-Pacific countries. Three groups of regional portfolio are constructed, with sorting based on relative strength ranking...

The chapter presents an overview of regional financial arrangements in Asia-Pacific. It represents an attempt to "map" various forms of financial governance mechanisms in the region. In line with the analytical model deployed in this volume, the chapter addresses the relationship between global...

This paper documents how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have integrated financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s. First, the region is increasingly more connected with itself and with other economies. Although economies in the North capture the bulk of the...