Stock Market Integration in Latin America: An Analysis of The Markets in Chile, Peru and Colombia
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This article presents an analysis of the stock market integration in Latin America, with a focus on Chile, Peru and Colombia. The main goal is to determine the existence of stock market integration between them. To this end, the existence of cointegration vectors in the stock market indices and the propagation of variance between these countries has been tested, with a VEC model to model the equation of the measurement of returns and a DCC-GARCH model to capture the dynamics of correlations between markets and to analyze the spread of risk between regions. The results indicate that Latin American stock markets do not present a common growth trend, which reveals fundamental differences between them that hinder the integration process. Being that Chile and Peru maintain competitive performances both internationally and regionally, sharing certain statistical characteristics. And, in contrast, Colombia has been losing its regional competitiveness and is obtaining lower results
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