Price transmission, foreign exchange rate risks and global diversification of ADRs
- 1 May 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Applied Economics
- Vol. 42 (14), 1811-1823
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701736057
Abstract
The purposes of this article are to reinvestigate how returns of major American depository receipts (ADRs) from different countries are related to the underlying stock returns and to identify the determinants of ADR risk premiums. We use different types of error-correcting terms in vector error correction models to examine information flows between ADRs and the underlying foreign stocks. General method of moments estimation of conditional international asset pricing model of Dumas and Solnik ( 1995 Dumas, B and Solnik, B . 1995. The world price of foreign exchange risk. Journal of Finance, 50: 445–79. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar] ) is applied to investigate ADR return premiums. We find that stock returns are more affected by disequilibrium between ADR and stock prices in an inefficient way. For US investors, foreign exchange rate risk premiums and world market risk premium (beyond US index) are priced in ADRs returns ex ante. Surprisingly, it is shown that the exchange rate of New Taiwan dollar and the interest rates of Brazil and Taiwan play important roles in determining ADR risk premiums across countries.Keywords
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