This paper assesses whether long-term institutional investors help stabilise or destabilise Hong Kong and international stock markets. We use a novel dataset based on individual funds issued by insurance companies and pension funds worldwide. This allows us to examine each economic region in...

This paper identifies major determinants of mutual fund flows to Hong Kong equities, which is essential for financial regulators and investors to understand potential sources of instability in domestic financial markets. We find that fund flows to global equities outweigh other fund-specific...

This paper investigates how a rise in US long-term interest rates would have an effect on other international markets. We document that a significant portion of long-term interest rates is due to term premium, which can be interpreted as compensation for inflation risk. Based on an assumed...

This paper examines financial linkages among Asia-Pacific stock markets and those between these markets and other global markets. By studying the mean and tail dependences of the 37 stock market indices, we find that while Asia-Pacific stock markets is mainly driven by shocks within the...

This paper evaluates the financial spillovers between the US and emerging market economies (EMEs) using the methodology advocated by Diebold and Yilmaz (2009). Based on (i) cross-asset returns of sovereign bond, equity, and foreign exchange, and (ii) 27 individual long-term sovereign bond...