“…Whereas, this convergence hypothesis has been widely tested in the economic growth dimension, recent applications to financial markets is gaining ground and becoming increasingly popular (Brada et al, 2005;Orlowski, 2005;Kim et al, 2005Kim et al, , 2006Elyasiani et al, 2007;Eun & Lee, 2010;Su et al, 2010;Narayan et al, 2011).…”