STOCK RETURN VOLATILITY AND COINTEGRATION OF U.S. AND ASIAN MARKETS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS (1997-2014) THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For Degree of Sarjana Ekonomi (S1) in Management Program Faculty of Economics, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta Compiled by: Yeffi Hadi Winata Student ID: 10 12 18255 FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNIVERSITAS ATMA JAYA YOGYAKARTA 2014 i
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First, I would like to use this opportunity to express my gratitude to my Lord Jesus Christ for his blessings and His richest grace for the accomplishment of this thesis. I also would like to to express my gratitude to all of the important people that helped me, supported me throughout my years in college. 1. First and foremost, thank you to my supervisor and my lecturer, Prof. Sukmawati. Thank you for all the sincerity, advice, notes, feedbacks and all the knowledge you shared. Without her help, I wouldn t be able to finish my thesis and thank you for all the motivation and believe in me to finish my thesis. With your support, I didn t lose faith and have more confidence in myself. It s really an honour to work and study under your guidance. 2. For my family, parents, aunty, and brother who are really noisy and pestering me, keep reminding me, teased me, and pushed me to get the job done. I wouldn t be able to finish this thesis without the support from my dear family, thank you so much for the prayers, help and thank you being there for me. 3. To all of my lecturers in Universitas Atma Jaya, thank you for the knowledge and experiences. Thank you for all of the task, group project, discussion, presentation. I ve learn something new each day and it pushed me to become better and better. Thank you for all the efforts teaching me up to the next level. 4. To my IBMP friends, (Tegar, Bion, Manggala, Tasha, Yeye, Tasha, Elin, Icha, Nye-Nyez, and Bani)I m really gratefull for all these years we ve spent v
together. Everyday is a good day with new experience and challenge we spent in the classroom together. All the funny experience, jokes and laughter we shared, I won t forget the time I ve spent with all of you guys. 5. To my friends I ve met in college, old friends from high school, and my best friend, Ci-cin. I ve spent years together with you guys and everyday full of jokes and fun, it really help me to relax and let go of my stress and pressure in my academic days. Thank you for Mo-Mon and Monchu who fight together and aiming for the same goal especially when we had a last defense, thank you so much. And also to my beloved person, Gon who stressed out with me together, but thank you for always be there for me and supported me, you pulled what s the best in me and helped me a lot especially with things I m not good at, thank you so much 6. To Mas Adit, thank you for all the help with academic matters and provide me with information when I m at lost. Thank you also for hear me whining all the time. 7. To my KKN 96 friends from Suren, (Prima, Ardian, Billy, Yeye, Kris, Bany, Iting, Ko-chan, Bion, Jeff, and Lia) thank you for giving me a fun experiences and make my days in rural area colorful. And also for all the people I couldn t mention one by one. I m really gratefull to each and one of you. Yeffi Hadi Winata vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE.. i APPROVAL PAGE... ii COMITTEE S APPROVAL PAGE... iii AUTHENTICITY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT v TABLE OF CONTENTS. vi LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES.. xi LIST OF APPENDICES. xii ABSTRACT... xv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION... 1 1.1. Research Background. 1 1.2. Research Scope... 5 1.3. Research Problem... 5 1.4. Research Objectives... 6 1.5. Research Contribution...... 7 1.5.1. Academic Contribution... 7 1.5.2. Managerial Contribution... 7 1.5.3. Contribution to Investor... 8 1.6. The Originality of the Writing... 8 vii
1.7. Systematic of the Writing.. 9 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK... 11 2.1. Theoretical Background... 11 2.1.1. US and Asian Market... 11 2.1.2. Global Economic Event. 12 2.1.3. Stock Return Volatility.. 13 2.1.4. Risk Premium 14 2.1.5. Information Asymmetry 15 2.1.6. Co-Integration 16 2.2. Literature Review. 19 2.3. Hypothesis Development. 23 CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD... 26 3.1. Research Design... 26 3.1.1 Type and nature of the study... 26 3.1.2 Type of Investigation... 27 3.1.3 Study Setting... 27 3.1.4 Unit of Analysis... 27 3.1.5 Time Horizon... 28 3.2. Sample.. 28 3.3. Research Variable 29 3.3.1. Independent Variable. 29 3.4. Process of Collecting Data... 30 viii
3.5. Data Analysis Technique. 31 CHAPTER IV: DATA ANALYSIS... 35 4.1. Economic Condition and Stock Returns... 36 4.2. ARCH-M... 38 4.3. E-GARCH... 47 4.4. Cointegration... 56 4.5. Hypothesis Testing... 57 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION... 59 5.1. Conclusion... 59 5.2. Research Limitation and Suggestion... 61 5.2.1. Research Limitation... 61 5.2.2. Suggestion... 62 5.3. Research Contribution... 63 5.3.1. Academic Contribution... 63 5.3.1. Managerial Contribution... 63 5.3.2. Contribution to Investor... 63 REFERENCES... 64 APPENDIXES... 68 ix
LIST OF TABLES Table 2.2. 13 Table 4.1... 35 Table 4.2.1.. 39 Table 4.2.2.. 40 Table 4.2.3.. 41 Table 4.2.4.. 42 Table 4.2.5.. 43 Table 4.2.6.. 44 Table 4.2.7.. 45 Table 4.2.8.. 46 Table 4.3.1.. 48 Table 4.3.2.. 49 Table 4.3.3.. 50 Table 4.3.4.. 51 Table 4.3.5.. 52 Table 4.3.6.. 53 Table 4.3.7.. 54 Table 4.3.8.. 55 Table 4.4.1.. 56 x
Table 5.1.1.. 59 Table 5.1.2.. 60 xi
LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.1.1 36 Figure 4.1.2 37 xii
LIST OF APPENDIXES APPENDIX A-1... 68 APPENDIX A-2... 68 APPENDIX B-1.... 69 APPENDIX B-2.... 69 APPENDIX B-3.... 70 APPENDIX B-4.... 71 APPENDIX B-5.... 72 APPENDIX B-6.... 72 APPENDIX B-7.... 73 APPENDIX B-8.... 74 APPENDIX B-9.... 75 APPENDIX C-1.... 76 APPENDIX C-2.... 76 APPENDIX C-3.... 77 APPENDIX C-4.... 78 APPENDIX C-5.... 79 APPENDIX C-6.... 80 APPENDIX C-7.... 80 APPENDIX C-8..... 81 xiii
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STOCK RETURN VOLATILITY AND COINTEGRATION OF U.S. AND ASIAN MARKETS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS (1997-2014) Yeffi Hadi Winata Sukmawati Sukamulja International Business Management Program, Economics Faculty Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta Jalan Babarsari 43-44, Yogyakarta ABSTRACT Nature of the stock return is one of the important aspect for investor in making their decision to invest their money. The nature of stock could be examined by using three variables, consist of volatility, risk premium, and information asymmetry.this research will used E-GARCH and ARCH-M models, using the data from five counties whichi consist of U.S., Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, and Hong Kong. These data was taken from 1 st July 1997-30 th June 2014 which consist of eight periods of global economic events Periods. This research was conducted with seceral objectives, they are: (1) To analyze the effect of global economic conditions to stock return.(2) To investigate the effect of global economic conditions to risk premium. (3) To examine the impact of good nor bad news (asymmetric information) effect to the volatility of stock. (4)To analyze the co-integration between US market and four Asian markets during the global economic events (financial crisis). Keywords: Volatility, Risk Premium, Information Asymmetry, Co-integration, Global Economic Events xv