 Fractional integration in the equity markets of MENA regionA. Assaf Applied Financial Economics, 2007, vol. 17, issue 9, 709-723 Abstract: A major issue in financial economics is the behaviour of stock market returns over long horizons. This article provides an empirical investigation of the long-range dependence in the emerging stock markets of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Turkey. We use the modified rescaled range statistic (R/S) proposed by Lo (1991) and the rescaled variance statistic (V/S) developed by Giraitis et al. (2003) to investigate the long memory in the returns and volatility. Significant long memory is demonstrated in the series and implies a fractal market structure in the Middle East and North African (MENA) equity markets. We further investigate whether the long memory is caused by a shift in variance. Interestingly, our findings indicate that the presence of long memory in volatility due to shifts in variance cannot be confirmed for these markets and are consistent with those results obtained by Lobato and Savin (1998) on other markets. Thus, our results should be useful to regulators, practitioners and derivative market participants in the MENA region, whose success depends on the ability to forecast stock price movements over long horizons. Date: 2007 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:apfiec:v:17:y:2007:i:9:p:709-723 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/09603100600735310 Access Statistics for this article Applied Financial Economics is currently edited by Anita Phillips More articles in Applied Financial Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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