Research Article

Quantifying Information Flows among Developed and Emerging Equity Markets

Table 3

Information flows between the VIX and emerging markets volatility indices.

Direction of information flowIMF1IMF2IMF3IMF4ASTIMF5IMF6IMF7AMTResidual/LT
ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)ETE (SE)

VXEWZ -> VIX−0.2076 (0.0782)−0.0735 (0.0771)−0.0380 (0.0698)−0.1270 (0.0686)−0.0156 (0.0821)−0.0878 (0.0587)−0.1282 (0.0637)−0.0879 (0.0554)−0.1140 (0.0536)−0.0831 (0.0714)
VIX -> VXEWZ−0.2595 (0.0747)−0.1017 (0.0766)−0.0483 (0.0684)−0.1113 (0.0630)−0.0792 (0.0834)−0.0387 (0.0650)−0.0238 (0.0519)−0.0354 (0.0624)−0.165 (0.0556)−0.0888 (0.0725)
RVI -> VIX−0.0730 (0.0743)−0.0511 (0.0814)0.0019 (0.0730)−0.0303 (0.0668)−0.1759 (0.0868)−0.1316 (0.0553)−0.08565 (0.0614)−0.0433 (0.0492)−0.050 (0.0450)−0.0541 (0.0568)
VIX -> RVI−0.1667 (0.0722)0.0842 (0.0763)−0.149 (0.0753)−0.1059 (0.0557)−0.1919 (0.0870)−0.0762 (0.0588)0.0010 (0.0511)−0.0695 (0.0599)−0.1033 (0.0572)−0.0489 (0.0754)
NIFVIX -> VIX−0.1401 (0.068)0.0091 (0.086)−0.2122 (0.0717)−0.1477 (0.0698)−0.0003 (0.0863)−0.1123 (0.0501)−0.1710 (0.0540)−0.0398 (0.0640)−0.0477 (0.0497)−0.1140 (0.0738)
VIX -> NIFVIX−0.1099 (0.0763)−0.016 (0.0777)−0.1149 (0.0789)−0.1134 (0.0629)0.1061 (0.0847)−0.0545 (0.0614)0.0139 (0.0475)−0.0721 (0.0637)−0.0204 (0.0561)−0.1116 (0.0713)
VXFXI -> VIX−0.0405 (0.0745)−0.0682 (0.0812)−0.0160 (0.070)0.0463 (0.0658)−0.0024 (0.0794)−0.0066 (0.0596)−0.0910 (0.0594)−0.0406 (0.0653)−0.0509 (0.0522)−0.1103 (0.0696)
VIX -> VXFXI−0.1095 (0.0704)0.0429 (0.0768)−0.1744 (0.0734)−0.1917 (0.0585)−0.0017 (0.0912)−0.1127 (0.0661)−0.0751 (0.0512)−0.0667 (0.0637)−0.1566 (0.0618)−0.1190 (0.0761)
VXEEM -> VIX−0.0577 (0.0702)−0.1222 (0.0722)0.0734 (0.0697)0.0757 (0.0620)−0.0920 (0.0822)−0.0815 (0.0582)−0.1262 (0.0553)−0.0323 (0.0576)−0.1078 (0.0540)−0.1186 (0.0731)
VIX -> VXEEM−0.1825 (0.0730)−0.0118 (0.0722)−0.1592 (0.0714)−0.1100 (0.0581)−0.2377 (0.0845)−0.0443 (0.0660)−0.1134 (0.0494)−0.1538 (0.0566)−0.1516 (0.0605)−0.1176 (0.0716)

Note. ETE,and SE denote effective transfer entropy estimate and standard error. AST means aggregate short term, and AMT also represents aggregate medium term. standard errors in parenthesis., , and indicate significance at 10%, 5% and 1% levels respectively.