Granular Institutional Investors and Global Market Interdependence

Jinjarak, Yothin; Zheng, Huanhuan

Abstract

We study the propagation of global investment risk across markets through the granular view of institutional investors. Applying the conditional value-at-risk estimation to micro-level weekly observations of international mutual funds between 2003 and 2011, we find that idiosyncratic shocks to large institutional investors explain both aggregate market risk and cross-market risk interdependence. Conditional on the US capital markets being in financial distress, idiosyncratic shocks to the top 10% largest funds investing in the US explain about 40% of the risk fluctuations in other non-US markets. The findings are also economically and statistically significant for the top largest funds investing in non-US markets, with the effects becoming especially large during the global financial crisis of 2007–09. These results are robust after controlling for common risk factors and applying alternative measures of idiosyncratic shocks.

Citation

Jinjarak, Y., & Zheng, H. (2014). Granular Institutional Investors and Global Market Interdependence. Journal of International Money and Finance, 46, 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2014.03.007

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Mar 31, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 12, 2025
• Journal: Journal of International Money and Finance
• Print ISSN: 0261-5606
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-0639
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 46
• Pages: 61-81
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2014.03.007