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Convergence of Caribbean Stock Exchanges

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  • Howard, Stacia
  • Craigwell, Roland

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This paper uses daily data for market returns as well as for the cross-listed securities on the three main stock exchanges in the Caribbean: the Barbados Stock Exchange, the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange and the Jamaica Stock Exchange to examine the beta-convergence and sigma-convergence of the markets. The results suggest that with respect to sigma-convergence, while the markets are becoming increasingly integrated, the convergence of the returns of the cross-listed securities is debatable, indicating some degree of information asymmetry. The results of the beta-convergence imply that the speed of convergence is still rather slow in comparison to other markets throughout the world.

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  • Howard, Stacia & Craigwell, Roland, 2010. "Convergence of Caribbean Stock Exchanges," MPRA Paper 40930, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Stock Exchanges; Convergence; Caribbean;
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    JEL classification:

    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • G29 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Other
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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