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ABSTRACT This article examines the presence of spillover and time varying correlation between returns of Islamic stock markets in the Gulf region. Our sample comprises six Gulf equity market returns i.e. Oman, the UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait ranging from June 2005 to January 2022. We use spillover and wavelet multiple cross-correlation methods for data analysis. Our results highlight that the equity markets of Oman and UAE exhibit significant correlation with each other in the medium-run investment period which decreases in the short-run. UAE highlights significant integration with rest of the Gulf markets. Our results also highlight spillover between the stock returns of UAE and Oman during both short- and long-run periods. Among all markets, UAE appears to exhibit maximum integration with other markets. These results carry implications for the investment in the Gulf stock markets during different investment horizons.
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