In the context of globalization, through a growing process of market liberalization, advanced technology and economic trading bloc, national stock markets have become more interdependent, which limits the international portfolio diversification opportunities. This paper investigates the degree...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the regional integration of national stock markets. Cluster analysis is utilised in order to determine whether returns generated in national stock markets form groupings. The results suggest that markets are segmented on a regional basis. This finding is...

This paper investigates the degree of integration of in the North American equity markets in the post NAFTA period, 1994 to 2006 and two sub post NAFTA period: 1994-1999 and 2000-2006 using daily stock closing price(s) indices. The Johansen and Juselius (1990) method for determining the presence...

In the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we review selected studies that explicitly or implicitly address the question of whether there occurs synchronization of stock markets between China and the BRI economies. Following this, we examine the extent to which this synchronization of...