“…While a significant body of papers has documented the nature of long-term relations in both Asian (Yang and Siregar 2001, Azman-Saini 2002, Manning (2002, Phylaktis and Ravazollo, 2005, Laopodis, 2005, Chang and Caudill, 2006and Choudhry, 2007 and European (Serletis and King 1997, Chan et al, 1997, Rangvid, 2001, Phengpis and Apilado, 2004, Voronkova, 2004, Yang et al, 2006, Syriopoulos, 2007and Aggarwal et al, 2009 African stock markets and use, in addition to a regime switching cointegration methodology, the nonparametric cointegration model of Breitung (2002) and the stochastic volatility cointegration model of Harris et al, (2002).…”