This paper examined equity market integration within the emerging and frontier stock markets of south and east Africa, and the rest of the world. Using maximum likelihood based cointegration we showed that there are weak stochastic trends between African markets and world markets. With the...

Modelling stock return behaviour provides an important tool for analysing investment decisions and choices. In this paper, the assumption of linearity is tested for the returns of three North African markets—Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. I find that the assumption of independently and...