Are Stock Markets among BRICS Members Integrated? A Regime Shift-Based Co-Integration Analysis

Are Asia-Pacific Stock Markets Predictable? Evidence from Wavelet-based Fractional Integration Estimator

This paper examines predictability in stock return in developed and emergingmarkets by testing long memory in stock returns using wavelet approach. Wavelet-based maximum likelihood estimator of the fractional integration estimator is superior to the conventional Hurst exponent and Geweke and Porter-Hudak estimator in terms of asymptotic properties and mean squared error. We use 4-year moving wi...

Are Crude Oil, Gas And Coal Prices Co integrated?

Detecting jumps and regime-switches in international stock markets returns

This paper explores seven international stock markets (DJIA, Euro STOXX 600, Russell 2000, Nikkei, NASDAQ, FTSE, Global Dow) in the quest for jumps and regime-switches. The methodological framework borrows from the Markov-switching approach and the stochastic modelling literature based on Lévy processes. The econometric procedure is detailed in a twostep fashion. The dataset covers the period f...

Are Chinese stock markets increasing integration with other markets in the greater China region and other major markets?

This paper investigates the cointegrating and long-term causal relationships between the Shanghai A and Bshare market, and between these two markets and the Hong Kong, the Taiwanese, the Japanese and the US market of two sub periods between July 1993 and March 2007. On the basis of a new Granger non-causality test procedure developed by Toda-Yamamoto (1995) and Johansen’s (1988) cointegration t...

A Wavelets Analysis of MENA stock markets

In this paper we apply the wavelets methodology to the analysis of the comovements of for some MENA countries from June 1997 until March 2005. We decompose weekly stock market returns into di¤erent time scale components using the non-decimated discrete wavelet transform and then analyze the relationships among these variables at the di¤erent time scales. Keywords : Stock market returns, Wavelet...