The New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development focuses on the benefits to integration of many smaller African markets with South Africa as the central hub motivated by a wish to attract foreign investment and increase liquidity. However, little attention has been paid to issues regarding...

This study contrasts well established liquidity measures, namely volume-based turnover ratio, related price-impact Amihud (2002) construct and the multidimensional Liu (2006) indicator alongside the Lesmond, Ogden and Trzcinka (1999) proportion of zero daily returns metric in explaining bid-ask...