Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World /

Using newly-constructed data covering the last decade, we document that, in most of forty markets, when added to the main index, firms' returns experience an increase in comovement with the rest of the index, reflected in higher beta and greater explanatory power of the market return. Stock tur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yafeh, Yishay
Other Authors: Claessens, Stijn
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/047
Online Access:Full text available on IMF