Global Stock Market Integration ─ Co-Movement, Crises, and Efficiency in Developed and Emerging Markets

Stock market integration between developing and emerging markets has numerous benefits for creating a global - yet stable - world economy. It increases competition and the efficiency of local markets, in turn reducing price volatility and the cost of capital among integrated markets. It also generates capital flows, which enhance financial stability and spur economic growth. At its core, stock market integration has an important role to play in developing countries still reeling from the sub-prime financial crisis.

Global Stock Market Integration analyzes the financial makeup of developing and emerging markets around the world, providing empirical insights into market integration, co-movements in price, crises, and efficiency linkages. Mobarek and Mollah argue that the relationship between market integration and market efficiency within developing countries is not the only measure necessary for effecting real financial growth. This work brings the review of theories and empirical research on the topic up-to-date, and expands the existing literature with new perspectives on developed and emerging markets.

Asma Mobarek is Associate Professor in the Stockholm Business School at Stockholm University, Sweden. She also worked in the University of Botswana and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in her early career. Her research interests are in market efficiency, market integration, and co-movement.

Sabur Mollah is Associate Professor of Finance at Stockholm Business School at Stockholm University, Sweden. He previously taught at Leeds University, UK; University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; and University of Botswana. His current research focuses on market contagion and co-integration during crisis and the failure of corporate governance in large banks during global crisis.