Abstract
The core aim of this study is to compute the long run relationship between frontier equity
markets Pakistan (KSE 100 Index), Argentina (MERVAL BUENOS AIRES) stock Exchange,
NSE.20 (Kenya), MSM 30 (MSI) Oman and equity markets of developed world (OMXS30) Sweden,
SMI (Switzerland), SSE Composite Index (China) and STI index (Singapore) by taking weekly values
from stock return prices for the period 1st week of January-2000 to last week of January/2014.
Descriptive statistic, Correlation, Augmented dickey fuller (ADF), Phillips Perron test, Johanson and
Jelseluis test of co-integration, Granger causality test, Variance Decomposition Test and Impulse
Response are used to find the relationship among frontier and developed markets. The results of this
study reveal that frontier markets have no long run relationship with equity markets of developed
world. Furthermore, this study is helpful for investors to enhance the returns by diversifying the
unsystematic risk at given level of profit because results of this study confirm that markets are no cointegrated.
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