Dynamic Linkages Among the Emerging Middle Eastern and the United States Stock Markets‪.‬

ABSTRACT Vector Auto Regression (VAR) and Bayesian Vector Auto-Regression (BVAR) models are used to trace the dynamic linkages across daily returns of stock market indexes in the Middle East and the United States, and to investigate how a shock in one market is transmitted to other markets. The Middle East Countries include Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, and Turkey. The dynamic linkages among these stock markets are found to be relatively small. The conclusion is that although markets are efficient, there are dynamic linkages that can be explored and exploited to benefit the diversified international investors.