02042cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF014768 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781498365628 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Shinagawa, Yoko. Determinants of Financial Market Spillovers : The Role of Portfolio Diversification, Trade, Home Bias, and Concentration / Yoko Shinagawa. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper defines financial market spillovers as the comovement between two countries' financial markets and analyzes financial market spillovers over the period 2001-12 through four channels: bilateral portfolio investment, bilateral trade, home bias, and country concentration. The paper finds that, if a country has a large amount of bilateral portfolio exposure in another country, these two countries' comovement of bond yields are large. Also, countries' geographical preferences impact financial spillovers; if a country has a stronger home bias, the country could have less spillovers from foreign financial markets. A policy implication from this result is that, if countries become less home-biased and have a greater amount of portfolio investment assets, they should strengthen prudential regulations to mitigate against rising risks of financial spillovers (or risk greater volatility owing to comovement with foreign markets). Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/187 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2014/187/001.2014.issue-187-en.xml IMF e-Library