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Volatility and Return spillovers in Canadian and U.S. industry ETFs
International Review of Economics & Finance (2013)
  • Timothy Krause, University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Yiuman Tse, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Abstract
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are now an important source of information dissemination in Canadian and U.S. equity markets, and we provide new evidence regarding price discovery and volatility spillovers in these securities. We find that price discovery flows consistently from the U.S. to Canada for these securities, while volatility spillovers are largely bi-directional. Information is impounded more rapidly into returns through trading in U.S securities, and the combination of negative U.S. return spillovers and asymmetric volatility creates bi-directional volatility feedback effects. The results are relevant to market participants and Canadian market regulators since Canadian circuit-breakers are tied to U.S. market conditions.
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Publication Date
January 1, 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.iref.2012.07.009
Citation Information
Timothy Krause and Yiuman Tse. "Volatility and Return spillovers in Canadian and U.S. industry ETFs" International Review of Economics & Finance Vol. 25 (2013) p. 244 - 259
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yiuman-tse/25/