The law of one price: An examination of price integration between Europe and regional markets in Africa
The law of one price: An examination of price integration between Europe and regional markets in Africa
This study examines the degree of price-integration of equity indices between the major markets of Africa, namely Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia and South Africa with the European markets of London and Paris. Vector Autoregressive and Autoregressive Distributed Lag methods reveal that African markets are largely price-segmented. The only markets that are price-integrated have shared economic and financial institutions, such as Namibia and South Africa, and Egypt, Tunisia and France. The evidence suggests that development policy should be focussed on enhancing existing institutions rather than embarking prematurely on regional integration.
Causality, Financial market integration, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Piesse, Jenifer
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Hearn, Bruce Allen
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August 2011
Piesse, Jenifer
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Hearn, Bruce Allen
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Piesse, Jenifer and Hearn, Bruce Allen
(2011)
The law of one price: An examination of price integration between Europe and regional markets in Africa.
Applied Economics, 44 (24), .
(doi:10.1080/00036846.2011.570722).
Abstract
This study examines the degree of price-integration of equity indices between the major markets of Africa, namely Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia and South Africa with the European markets of London and Paris. Vector Autoregressive and Autoregressive Distributed Lag methods reveal that African markets are largely price-segmented. The only markets that are price-integrated have shared economic and financial institutions, such as Namibia and South Africa, and Egypt, Tunisia and France. The evidence suggests that development policy should be focussed on enhancing existing institutions rather than embarking prematurely on regional integration.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 24 June 2011
Published date: August 2011
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Causality, Financial market integration, Sub-Saharan Africa
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