On the linkages between Africa's emerging equity markets and global markets: Evidence from fractional integration and cointegration

This paper uses fractional integration and cointegration for the period of January 2000–June 2018 to investigate the stochastic properties of the bilateral linkages between stock markets in Africa and selected international markets to establish if markets in Africa co-move with the rest of the world...

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Autores: Gil-Alana, L.A. (Luis A.)|||/items/a283ece6-b578-452c-9362-8d1a6255b23c, Carcel, H. (Hector)|||/items/6355eadc-06b2-4778-bfb7-0dd968fd91ab, Aikins-Abakah, E.J. (Emmanuel Joel)|||/items/78fb8af6-b1f8-4f02-a65b-17b39f4573b3
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/65728
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/65728
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:African stock markets
Linkages
Fractional integration
Fractional cointegration
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Sumario:This paper uses fractional integration and cointegration for the period of January 2000–June 2018 to investigate the stochastic properties of the bilateral linkages between stock markets in Africa and selected international markets to establish if markets in Africa co-move with the rest of the world. Results from the univariate analysis show that there exists a high degree of persistence with orders of integration about 1 or higher than 1, implying that shocks to these stock markets have significant permanent effects. Concerning bivariate results and testing for cointegration, evidence of cointegration is found for Egypt and Kenya against the UK and the Europe Zone. There are some other cases where partial evidence of cointegration is found, though in general, in all cases, we observe that the degree of cointegration is very low, implying very long periods of convergence