Financial development, international trade, and stock market integration: evidence in six Southeastern Asia countries

Abstract

Measuring the integration degree of the national stock market is popular in general globalization trend. The paper applies the measurement method of Chaiporn (2016) to consider for Vietnam stock market, and other five Asia typical economies in the period from 2000 to 2015. Their method has foundation on the research of Wälti (2011), An and Zhang (2013), Dasgupta (2010). The paper adopted fixed effect and random effect models to measure the impacts of financial development, financial integration and international trade integration to national stock market integration. The research findings revealed the positive affect of the financial integration and development to the national stock markets integration with global stock market in Vietnam and other five countries. Beside, international trade integration does not effect to integrating securities market. Perhaps, the bilateral trade is too small to impact the bilateral stock markets integration