TY - JFULL AU - B. K. Yeoh and Z. Arsad and C. W. Hooy PY - 2010/7/ TI - Stock Market Integration Measurement: Investigation of Malaysia and Singapore Stock Markets T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 1351 EP - 1357 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6368 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 42, 2010 N2 - This paper tests the level of market integration between Malaysia and Singapore stock markets with the world market. Kalman Filter (KF) methodology is used on the International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) and the pricing errors estimated within the framework of ICAPM are used as a measure of market integration or segmentation. The advantage of the KF technique is that it allows for time-varying coefficients in estimating ICAPM and hence able to capture the varying degree of market integration. Empirical results show clear evidence of varying degree of market integration for both case of Malaysia and Singapore. Furthermore, the results show that the changes in the level of market integration are found to coincide with certain economic events that have taken placed. The findings certainly provide evidence on the practicability of the KF technique to estimate stock markets integration. In the comparison between Malaysia and Singapore stock market, the result shows that the trends of the market integration indices for Malaysia and Singapore look similar through time but the magnitude is notably different with the Malaysia stock market showing greater degree of market integration. Finally, significant evidence of varying degree of market integration shows the inappropriate use of OLS in estimating the level of market integration. ER -