Do frontier equity markets exhibit common trends and still provide diversification opportunities?

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Miles, William
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2006-08-19
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Portfolio choice , International financial markets
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Miles, William. 2006. Do frontier equity markets exhibit common trends and still provide diversification opportunities? International Economic Journal, vol. 19:no. 3:pp 473-482
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Many small, frontier equity markets in regions such as Africa and Eastern Europe have opened in recent years. As in other larger emerging markets, important issues for investors are the extent of financial integration with exchanges in other countries and, if some reasonable degree of integration is found, whether such markets still provide diversification opportunities. Here, we will examine a frequently used metric of integration by testing for the existence of common trends, or cointegration, in these frontier markets. While common stochastic trends are found, results show that coefficients on cointegrating vectors are at times negative, and reaction to deviations from the long-run trend are often slow, thus indicating that frontier markets are a good source of diversification opportunities despite a degree of integration.

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Taylor & Francis
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International Economic Journal;v.19:no.3
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1016-8737
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