Market Integration: Overview of Relevant Issues

The literature of market integration has become like a disseminated big puzzle of knowledge. For senior researches this is not a challenging matter as they have been in that field of knowledge for long time and undoubtedly they knew it from head to toes. The problem is that new researchers to the field of market integration might find it very stressful and difficult to constitute basic knowledge about related aspects of market integration without searching through hundreds and thousands of related academic resources. Therefore, this book aims to provide succinct and thorough overview of the related aspects of market integration over seven chapters including definitions of market integration, theories of market integration, dimensions of market integration, determining factors of stock market integration, measurements of financial market integration, and the importance of regional financial market integration.