Stock Market Integration Among BRICS Nations - An Empirical Analysis

A study on integration among stock markets from different countries has an enormous importance in a globalized economic world. Being an awful economic force BRICS group of nations can change the economic climate of the world if they are highly financially integrated. The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the integration among BRICS nations during the past 10 years (2005 to 2015) by considering daily price histories of IBrX 50, RTSI, Nifty Index, Shanghai Composite Index, and FTSI - Africa Index for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa respectively. It has been applied Johansen Co-integration Test (1988) and Pairwise Granger Causality test to remark interdependencies and dynamic linkages among selected markets. Surprisingly, Even though it is a Hulking economic force in the world, It has no long run relationship between them and some unidirectional cause and effect relationship only existed. Finally, this paper alleges better candidacy of the stock exchanges in multi-nationally diversified portfolios.