LEADER 06765oam 22013694 450 001 9910960887403321 005 20250426110719.0 010 $a9786612843532 010 $a9781462392094 010 $a1462392091 010 $a9781452726861 010 $a1452726868 010 $a9781451872866 010 $a1451872860 010 $a9781282843530 010 $a1282843532 035 $a(CKB)3170000000055294 035 $a(EBL)1608350 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000943045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11967159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000943045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10974943 035 $a(PQKB)10407329 035 $a(OCoLC)712987742 035 $a(IMF)WPIEE2009139 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1608350 035 $a(IMF)WPIEA2009139 035 $aWPIEA2009139 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000055294 100 $a20020129d2009 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRegional Financial Integration in the Caribbean : $eEvidence From Financial and Macroeconomic Data /$fGoohoon Kwon, Raphael Espinoza 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cInternational Monetary Fund,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (37 p.) 225 1 $aIMF Working Papers 300 $a"July 2009". 311 08$a9781451917154 311 08$a1451917155 320 $aIncludes bibliographic references. 327 $aContents; I. Introduction; II. Background; III. Stock Price Convergence; A. Data; B. AR results; C. Threshold Auto-Regression (TAR) estimator; IV. Current Account Convergence and Regional Trade Balance; A. Theory; B. Estimation framework; C. Global Financial Integration; D. Intra-regional trade and regional financial integration; V. Conclusion; References; Appendix A; Tables; 1. Balance of Payments; 2. UNCTAD FDI Inward Stock (In millions U.S. dollars, 2001; 3. UNCTAD FDI Outward Stock (In millions of U.S. dollars, 2001); 4. Regional Exports, as a Share of GDP 327 $a5. Interest Rates: Principal Component Analysis, 1980m1-2005m126. Interest Comovements; 7. Cross-Listed Stocks; 8. Cross-Market Premium; 9. (G) ARCH-AR Model; 10. (G) ARCH-TAR Model; 11. ? Coefficient from 1975-2005; 12. ? Coefficient from 1975-90; 13. ? Coefficient from 1991-2005; 14. Regional Financial Integration 1975-2005; 15. 1975-90 Estimates of Regional Financial Integration; 16. 1991-2005 Estimates of Regional Financial Integration; Figures; 1. Interest Rates in the CARICOM and Sigma-Convergence (3 month T-Bills); 2. Cross-Listed Stocks; 3. Convergence Speed vs. Foreign Liabilities 330 3 $aThis paper assesses the extent of regional financial integration in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by analyzing equity prices in the region and rigidity of external financing constraints. The results are presented in a cross-regional perspective. The Caribbean stock markets are not as well integrated as one would expect from the extent of cross-listing and importance of regional banking groups: price differentials of cross-listed stocks reach an average of 5 percent. Auto-Regressive models suggest that these price differentials are only slowly arbitraged away, with half-lives exceeding 7 worked days, even when looking only at large arbitrage opportunities (using a Threshold Auto-Regressive model). A speculative methodology using macroeconomic data seems to confirm these findings. A strong mean reversion of the current account (respectively regional trade imbalances) is interpreted, following Obstfeld and Taylor (2004), as a lack of ways to finance current account deficits, i.e. a lack of global (respectively regional) financial integration. 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