Equity Markets and Economic Development: What Do We Know



The sensitivity of equity market i to the foreign news factors is measured by the parameters
βiUS,t -1 and βiREG,t-1 . These risk parameters are time-varying and modeled as follows:

βiUS,t-1 = p1ii * XiUS,t-1 + qiXiW t-1 * WUS,t-1

(2)


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βREG,t-1 = p2,i * XiRlEJG,t-1 + qiXiW,t-1 * WUS,t-1

Where WUS,t-1 represents the US market capitalisation relative to the world market
capitalisation at time
t - 1. XiUS,t-1 , X iREG,t -1 and XiW,t-1 are information variables that
capture the covariance risk of market
iwith the US and the region, respectively3. εi,t
represents the unexpected portion of local market returns. It is driven not only by shocks from
the local market, but also by two foreign shocks originating in the U.S. and the region, that is,

εi,t = βiUS,t-1 *eUS,t-1 + βiREG,t -1 *eREG,t-1 + ei,t

(3)


Where ei,t represents the idiosyncratic shock on any market i (including the US and world
portfolio). It follows a normal distribution such as
ei,t ~ N (0,σ2it). The U.S. and regional
markets models are special cases of (1)-(2). For the U.S. market (with
i = us ),
p1,US = p2,US = qUS = 0 . For the regional market, (with i = reg ), p2,REG = qREG = 0. US and
regional dollar excess returns can thus be expressed as:

RUS,t = γUS ZUS,t -1 + εUS,t

(4)
RR.EG,t = γREGZREG,t-1 + βreg,US,t-1 * μUS,t-1 + εREG,t

3 In the empirical model, these include the proportions of bilateral trade (Xus+Mus)/E(X+M),
(Xreg+Mreg)/E(X+M) and (X+M)/GDP, respectively.



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