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Revista mexicana de economía y finanzas
On-line version ISSN 2448-6795Print version ISSN 1665-5346
Abstract
MAGNER PULGAR, Nicolás; TERAN SANCHEZ, Esteban José Antonio and GUZMAN MUNOZ, Vicente Alfonso. Stock Market Synchronization and Stock Volatility: The Case of an Emerging Market. Rev. mex. econ. finanz [online]. 2022, vol.17, n.3, e747. Epub Sep 14, 2023. ISSN 2448-6795. https://doi.org/10.21919/remef.v17i3.747.
The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of stock market synchronization on the volatility of its component assets. For this objective, we calculate the stock market's synchronization using the Minimum Spanning Tree Length (MSTL) network analysis method. Then, we implement forecasting tests in and out the sample to assess the forecasting power on the stock market's synchronization to predict the individual stock realized volatility. Additionally, we test a VAR and a forecast error variance decomposition analysis to study Granger causality's presence on volatility. Our results show that synchronization within a market exists and changes over time. Our main results show that an increase in synchronization causes an increase in financial assets' realized volatility in the following month. Our results made it possible to study financial markets' synchronization and take a systemic risk approach to improve investment management. Our main idea was that the stock markets' synchronization positively correlates with financial assets' volatility. The greater the synchronization, the greater the volatility in the following period. This study offers a new approach to study the stock market volatility.
Keywords : Stock market synchronization; stock volatility; Minimum Spanning Tree; Forecasting; Financial Network Analysis; G15; G17; G18.