“…The relationship between these series may not hold in the short run, but this deviation does not hold due to the market forces, government regulations and investor's preferences (Ghosh, Saidi, & Johnson, 1999;Dhanaraj, Gopalaswamy, & Babu, 2017;Ge, Wu, Zhang, & Zou, 2019). Numerous studies have documented the dynamic linkages between different equity markets and volatility transmission mechanisms based on such interdependence (Hasan, Saleem, & Abdullah, 2008;Abbas, Khan, & Shah, 2013;Fraz & Hasan, 2016;Paramati et al, 2018;Kim, Choi, & Kim, 2019). Roll (1992) investigates the disparate behavior of the different equity market indices and report that some market indices are highly diversified as compared to the others.…”