Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Integration of ASEAN5 equity markets, GDP and trade and their relationships with asset pricing

This thesis contributes to our understanding of the ASEAN group, focusing on the ASEAN5 with particular attention paid to asset pricing and the linkages between equity markets, GDP and trade. A further motivation for this thesis lies in the importance of emerging markets. The ASEAN5 equity markets and their economies have only recently been freed from many of the regulatory constraints that bound their economies.