A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Foreign Ownership of Stocks and Long-run Interdependence Between National Housing and Stock Markets-Evidence from Finnish Data
Authors: Oikarinen E
Publisher: SPRINGER
Publication year: 2010
Journal: Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
Journal acronym: J REAL ESTATE FINANC
Number in series: 4
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
First page : 486
Last page: 509
Number of pages: 24
ISSN: 0895-5638
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11146-009-9175-1
Abstract
Globalization of the financial markets may have undermined co-movement between stock and housing markets, at least in small open economies. This paper provides an empirical study on the long-term dynamic interrelation between stock and housing markets in a small open economy with special attention to the effect of foreign investors on the dynamics. The empirical findings, based on a quarterly dataset from Finland over 1970-2006, do not support the hypothesis of diminished co-movement between Finnish stock and housing markets after the abolishment of the foreign ownership restrictions of stocks in 1993. The markets still appear to be tightly interdependent in the long run. Nevertheless, the results suggest that the substantial growth in the foreign ownership of Finnish stocks induced a large and long-lasting deviation from the cointegrating long-run relation between stock and housing prices. The results also imply that diversification between stock and housing markets works the worse the longer the investment horizon is.
Globalization of the financial markets may have undermined co-movement between stock and housing markets, at least in small open economies. This paper provides an empirical study on the long-term dynamic interrelation between stock and housing markets in a small open economy with special attention to the effect of foreign investors on the dynamics. The empirical findings, based on a quarterly dataset from Finland over 1970-2006, do not support the hypothesis of diminished co-movement between Finnish stock and housing markets after the abolishment of the foreign ownership restrictions of stocks in 1993. The markets still appear to be tightly interdependent in the long run. Nevertheless, the results suggest that the substantial growth in the foreign ownership of Finnish stocks induced a large and long-lasting deviation from the cointegrating long-run relation between stock and housing prices. The results also imply that diversification between stock and housing markets works the worse the longer the investment horizon is.
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