Handbook of Frontier Markets

Chapter 7

An Assessment of the Real Development Prospects of the EU 28 Frontier Equity Markets

C. Pop^*

D. Bozdog^**

A. Calugaru^†

M.A. Georgescu^‡*    Department of Business, Faculty of Business, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania^**    Financial Engineering Division, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ, United States^†    MarketAxess, New York City, NY, United States^‡    Faculty of Public Administration, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

The present research is the first to concentrate only on the EU 10 frontier markets and their internal diversification potential for the equity market segments. The EU 10 frontier markets present all five characteristics ...