In recent years, Commodity Dependent Developing Countries (CDDCs) have faced multiple global food, energy and climate crises, compounded by the recent financial and economic crises, which have increased their vulnerability to excessive price volatility in commodity markets. Moreover, structural...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the stock returns predictability in a multi-variate context. Johansen’s multivariate cointegration analysis is applied to weekly data on the Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore indices in 1997-2008. The results indicate that markets are...