Financial markets have become increasingly integrated, both domestically and internationally. Asset prices react to other asset price shocks both within and across asset classes. This paper presents a framework for analyzing the degree of financial transmission between money, bond and equity markets and exchange rates within and between the United States and Taiwan. The empirical model concentrates on monthly return over an 11-year period of 1995-2005 for seven asset prices: short-term interest rates, bond yield and equity market returns in both economies, as well as the exchange rate. The results are as followed:
First, Johansen cointegration test indicates that there is one cointegrating equation between seven variables. This finding means that there is a long-run equilibrium relationship among the variables.
Second, the error correction terms of the US short-term and long-term interest rates, Taiwan short-term interest rate and exchange rate are significant at the 95% level in the Vector Error Correction Model. The deviation from long-run equilibrium is corrected gradually through a series of partial short-run adjustments.
The third key result of the paper is that there is a feedback relationship between the US short-term interest rate and equity market return by using the Granger Causality test. Also, the US short-term and long-term interest rates Granger-cause Taiwan short-term interest rates. This result underline that the US financial markets are the main driver of global financial markets.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0208107-225323 |
| Date | 08 February 2007 |
| Creators | Chen, Nai-ning |
| Contributors | Yueh-h Chen, Chi-Jeng Wang, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0208107-225323 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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