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Price Discovery Study of Chinese ADRs on Global Markets

Yongli Luo*, Changxian Lan

College of Business, Houston Baptist University, Houston, United States

Abstract: This paper analyzes the price discovery mechanism between the Chinese American Depository Receipts (ADRs) listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and their underlying H shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). It employs the Permanent-Transitory decomposition in vector autoregression (VAR) model, and finds that the New York stock market makes the principal contribution to the price discovery, and the proportion of contribution is 84.84%; while the Hong Kong market makes only subsidiary contribution of 15.16%. In addition, it confirms the existence of the long-term cointegration relationship between ADRs and H shares, which implies that portfolio diversification among Chinese ADRs is consistent with Global Center Hypothesis and efficient for international investors.

Keywords: Chinese ADRs, price discovery, permanent transitory decomposition

Citation: Yongli Luo, Changxian Lan, Price Discovery Study of Chinese ADRs on Global Markets. Journal of Finance and Economics, 6 (1). 32-37. January 2018. doi:10.12691/jfe-6-1-5

1. Introduction

It is well recognized that listing American Depository Receipts (ADRs) in the U.S. market provides an important source of foreign capital investment for foreign enterprises, as well as an important instrument of portfolio diversification for international investors. With China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its continuing financial liberalization reforms, more and more Chinese enterprises have taken their steps into the overseas capital markets. Since Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical listed the first Chinese ADR on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1993, China has become the 6th largest foreign country to list ADRs in the U.S. market. As of June, 2009, total 148 Chinese ADRs listed in the U.S. market (see J. P. Morgan ADR universe, Jun. 2009), among them, 38 listed on the NYSE, 31 traded on NASDAQ, 67 were on OTC and 12 were under 144A. Therefore, it is no denying that Chinese ADRs will eventually be of an important instrument for international portfolio diversification.

This paper concentrates on the Chinese ADRs listed on the NYSE with underlying stocks on Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX). The objective of this study is to determine which market makes the major contributions to the price discovery between the ADRs and their underlying stocks. The hypothesis is that ADR/stock price is a combined reflection of both the host market and the foreign market, and is mainly determined by the global financial market (also called Global Center Hypothesis). To effectively evaluate this hypothesis, we employ a permanent and transitory model to test how the host and foreign market contribute to the price discovery. Accordingly, we select 15 ADRs and collect their weekly data to formulate into two portfolio assets. Then, we use econometric approaches to detect the leadership effects between the two cointegrated markets.

The results show that the U.S. market makes the principal contribution to the price discovery, and the average proportion contributed is 84.84%, while the Hong Kong market makes the subsidiary contribution to the price discovery and the average proportion is 15.16%. In addition, it confirms the existence of the long-term cointegration relationship between ADRs and H shares. The results are consistent with Global Center Hypothesis and have important implications for the portfolio diversification benefits of the international investors.

2. Literature Review

The price discovery study has been widely applied in financial market research, especially in cointegrated stocks or other financial equities. Fama and French [1] are the initiators to use permanent and temporary components method (or PT method) to examine the correlation structure of the prices in international stock markets. More recently, a few scholars begin to adopt this methodology into ADR market. However, it is arguing that whether the local or international market makes the principal contribution to price discovery. Kim et al. [2] find that the most influential factor in pricing the ADRs in Japan, UK, Sweden, Netherlands and Australia is their underlying shares. Additionally, based on a study of 113 ADRs from eight countries during the 1980-1994 period, Jiang [3] reports that the effect of the ADRs on local market portfolio is significant, although the ADR returns are significantly correlated with the U.S. returns, and they are affected by local market conditions and exchange rates. More over, Bacidore and Sofianos [4] confirm that the price discovery was determined in their home country. The similar results are also documented by Alaganar and Bhar [5], they examine the Australian ADRs, and find that the ADRs have a low correlation with the U.S. stock returns, offering diversification benefits. On the other hand, using data of 123 ADRs listed in 16 countries and employing the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) approach, Patro [6] reports significant exposure of the ADRs returns to their respective home market portfolios, and the movements in the world market portfolio are found to be a significant determinant of the ADRs’ returns. Simultaneously, using weekly data from 1990 to 1996, Choi and Kim [7] investigate 87 ADRs and find that the underlying, host, and local markets are all important determinants of the ADRs. The relative importance of these markets is found to be dependent on market types (emerging or industrial countries).

Very few research has been done in Chinese ADRs, especially on the mechanism of price discovery study. The research most closely related to this study is undertaken by Xu and Fung [8], they use multivariate GARCH model and examine the information flow between the Hong Kong and New York stock market. specifically, Kutan and Zhou [9] conduct an empirical study on Chinese ADRs and report that the underlying Hong Kong market has the most significant impact on mean returns of the ADRs, their findings are consistent with those of Kim, et al. [2]. However, by using information share model, Su and Chong [10] further examine the cross-listed Chinese stocks in the New York and Hong Kong market, they suggest that the stock prices of these two exchanges are cointegrated and mutually adjusted. More over, their results reveal that the local market contributes more than the host market to the mechanism of information flow.

Following the spirit of previous research, we attempt to provide empirical results based on the permanent-transitory decomposition in Vector Autoregression (VAR) model. The VAR model is superior in capturing a combined price reflecting the common factors and unique factors arising from both the NYSE and the HKEX, given the efficient hypothesis of financial market and information transparency between the different markets. The assumption is that, for the same company, the price of ADR and its underlying stock is determined by the information flow from each or both of the two markets. To achieve our goal, we collect the weekly data of the Chinese ADRs and their underlying H stocks over the period from 2005 to 2008, then we formulate them into two portfolios and apply an econometric VAR model to analyze the price discovery mechanism.

3. Data and Methodology

3.1. Data

In this paper, we only focus on those Chinese ADRs listed on the NYSE with underlying H shares on HKEX. Correspondingly, we collect their weekly price data (adjusted) from the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) and the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) over the period of January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008. The ADRs are distributed in eight different industry sectors: Chemicals, Travel and Leisure, Telecommunication, Oil and Gas Producers, Mining, Electricity, Insurance, and Semiconductor. Based on the weekly price series, we simply generate two equally weighted portfolios. One is the ADR portfolio and the other one is the underlying stock portfolio, each portfolio consists of 15 companies. In order to measure the two portfolios at the same unit, the underlying stock prices (measured by Hong Kong dollars) are converted into the U.S. dollar prices based on the weekly HKD/USD foreign exchange rates. Finally, we obtain two portfolios of Z1t and Z2t, which are expressed as logarithm form of the equally weighted portfolio of underlying H shares and the portfolio of ADRs. The general description of the sample firms is shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Description of Chinese ADRs listed on the NYSE

Noticed that two simple portfolios are generated to represent the equally weighted ADRs prices and their equally weighted underlying stock price. The specific calculation is shown as follows:

[picture] | (1)

Where, Ph’ is the converted H share price, Ph is the H share price at HKEX, Ratio is the number of H shares that one unit of ADR can be converted to. RUSD/HKD is the weekly adjusted closing price of the HKD/USD exchange rate.

3.2. Methodology

Gonzalo and Granger [11] demonstrate that the cointegrated system (Zit) can be represented by the sum of a permanent component Ct and a transitory component ut, which is also known as Permanent-Transitory (P-T) model. This decomposition can distinguish between long-term component and short-term cycles of securities or exchange markets. Thus, assuming the ADR market is cointegrated with their underlying stock market, we apply the P-T model to decompose the mechanism of ADR price discovery system. Let Zt be a vector containing an underlying stock portfolio price series (Z1t ), and an ADR portfolio price series (Z2t ); both series are in logarithm form, then we have:

[picture] | (2)

If the long run cointegration relationship is supported, we can represent Zt by a vector-error correction (VEC) model as following Equation (3):

[picture] | (3)

where, Δ is the first-difference operator, β is the coefficient matrix of cointegrating vectors, α is an adjustment coefficient matrix, Γi is a matrix of the estimated parameters reflecting short-run dynamics, and εt is a white-noise error vector.

Because Γ is perpendicular to the absolute value of α, the contribution to price discovery of each market can be represented by the coefficient of the common factor in each portfolio. The larger the weight is, the bigger the contribution that market makes. Therefore, the proportion of the Hong Kong market’s contribution (S₁) and that of the New York market (S₂) can be expressed as:

[picture] | (4)

4. Empirical Results

4.1. Unit Root Test

Granger and Newbold [12] show that a spurious regression problem could be encountered studying with non-stationary series. In this case, the results obtained by regression analysis do not reflect the accurate and real relationship. The most common used tests in literature determining the stationarity levels of series are Unit Root test by Augmented Dick-Fuller (ADF) test [13] and PP test [14]. Correspondingly, we conduct the ADF and PP tests and present the results as follows in Table 2.

According to the ADF and PP unit root tests in Table 2-Panel A, the t-value for Z1t generated by the above regression model corresponding to the ADF test is -0.589, and PP test is -0.614. The t-value for Z2t generated by the above regression model corresponding to the ADF test is -0.617, and PP test is -0.656, which are greater than the critical values of -2.57, -1.94, and -1.62 at the 1%, 5%, 10% significant levels, respectively. We fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that both the Z1t series and Z2t series are non-stationary processes.

According to the unit root test results on the 1st difference series in Table 2--Panel B, the t-value for R1t series generated by the above regression model corresponding to the ADF test is -12.341, and the PP test is -12.325. The t-value for R2t series generated by the above regression model corresponding to the ADF test is -12.463, and the PP test is -12.462, which is smaller than the critical values of -3.46, -2.87, and -2.57 at the 1%, 5%, 10% significant level, respectively). We reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the R1t series and R2t series are both stationary processes at the first difference.

Table 2. Unit Root Test

Table 3. Johansen Cointegration Test

4.2. Cointegration Test

Once both ADR portfolio and H share portfolio are determined to be non-stationary at their level, we move further to examine the nature of their linear combination. Since we differentiate our sample series once, there is one unit root, so it is an I(1) process. Specifically, we will be interested in examining the linear combination between the non-stationary Z1t series and Z2t series, if such a linear combination exists, then Z1t series and Z2t series are said to be cointergrated. However, taking difference method does not only erase the effects of persistent shocks on the variable in the past periods, but also may erase the long term relationships besides the shocks. In this point, cointegration analysis says that even if economic variables are not stationary, there might still exist a linear combination of these series; if so, this might be modeled econometrically in the cointegration approach developed by Gonzalo and Granger [11]. The cointegration approach states that time series which are not stationary in level but stationary in their first difference may be modeled in their level without long term information loss. Therefore, we conduct the Johansen cointegration test [17] including the differences and levels of non-stationary time series. Accordingly, we present the testing results in Table 3.

According to the results in Table 3, one cointegration vector is detected for both trace and maximum eigenvalue statistics at the 5% significance level. In other words, the null hypothesis, claiming there is no cointegration vector, is rejected according to the t statistics. In conclusion, a long term relationship exists between the two portfolios.

4.3. Vector Error Correction (VEC) Results

Based on the VEC results [18], the cointegration equation can be described as:

[picture] | (5)

The empirical results from the VEC model are listed in Table 4 and Table 5:

Table 4. Vector Error Correction Estimates

Table 5. P-T model estimation and price discovery contribution

According to the above results in Table 4 and Table 5, β0 represents the transaction cost, in another word, the transaction cost of converting H share to ADRs is 0.6083. The transaction costs include all the fees and foreign exchange premium during the process of conversion. Adjusted coefficient α1 and α2 reflect the adjusting speed of the Hong Kong market and New York market when the price is going far beyond the long term equilibrium price. S₁ (15.16%) and S2 (84.84%) are the proportion of contribution to the price discovery by the Hong Kong market (the C series) and the New York market (the Y series), respectively. Therefore, we can safely present the price discovery results as shown in the following Equations 6 and 7.

[picture] | (6)

[picture] | (7)

5. Conclusion

This paper use P-T Model to analyze the price discovery mechanism of the Chinese ADRs listed on the NYSE and their underlying stocks listed on the HKEX. This study finds that the New York market makes the principal contribution to the price discovery, and the contribution proportion is 84.84%, while the Hong Kong market makes subsidiary contribution to the price discovery, and the proportion of contribution is 15.16%. This is consistent with the global center hypothesis [19]. Under the environment of global economy, the price volatility is affected by the common factors generated from the global financial market, and is also influenced by the information spread out to different local markets from the global financial center. Our result is of clear evidence that the international market is playing the leadership effects among the global financial markets [20]. Therefore, the results have important implications for the diversification benefits to international investors. In sum, the existence of the long term cointegration relationship between ADRs and their underlying H shares implies that employing portfolio diversification in Chinese ADRs would be efficient.

The result is contradicting to the home country hypothesis. A few scholars believe that domestic market should make the primary contribution to the price discovery of those dually listed securities on different markets, because most important information, such as returns, dividends, annual report, etc, are initially announced from the domestic market [21]. However, the results imply that the international market plays a leading role in price discovery. Therefore, for those overseas listed Chinese companies, the global market impacts and information must be greatly concerned even their businesses are not globalized. In another words, these Chinese ADR companies cannot assess their risks from an isolated domestic perspective.

Although the cash flows of those Chinese ADRs originate from China, but the price volatility and price cointergration between ADRs and H shares are mainly determined by the information from overseas market. The alternative explanation relies on the development of modern technology, especially, online information diminishes the arbitrage opportunities and information asymmetry between different markets [22]. Therefore, location is not a barrier for financial transaction any more. In summary, the NYSE plays a leading effect in price discovery depending on four determinants: first, the NYSE is a global financial center, the transaction volume and financial disclosure system allow firms to enjoy the advantages of greater liquidity, transparency and access to the US capital market [23]. Second, from the perspective of the US investors, investing foreign ADRs is a convenient way of obtaining global diversification. Moreover, most of the Chinese ADR firms listed on the NYSE are selected from the top business from China, and also their businesses are internationalized. So, these companies are more open and more influenced by the global financial information. Finally, Hong Kong has implemented pegging the US dollars foreign exchange system since 1983. The market price volatility information, such as interest rate change, foreign exchange rate change and the expected yield changes in equities in the US market will spread out to the Hong Kong market promptly. It is no doubt that these important information releases enhance the role of the NYSE in price discovery.

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