The objective of this paper is to explore the stock markets integration between the US and the Asian stock markets during different US monetary policy stances. Our empirical findings tend to suggest that stock markets are highly integration during the periods of US's easy monetary policy stance....

We employ an asset pricing framework to show that over the last twenty years there has been an increasing degree of integration between Asian and international stock markets, but very little with Japan. This finding is generally consistent with prior studies and highlights the impact of...