capital market reforms in general and stock market liberalization in particular have generated a robust effect on economic growth by reducing the cost of capital and encouraging physical investment(Bekaert et al. 2003: Henry 2000; Henry and Lorentzen 2003; Patro 2005), increasing stock market liquidity and easing long-run investment in profitable projects(Levine 2001; Levine and Zervos 1996), and improving corporate governance and enhancing industrial efficiency(Bae et al. 2006; Gupta and Yuan 2009; Mitton 2006). These strong growth and efficiency effects have not been offs by macro-economic instabilities stemming from upward pressures on inflation; if anything inflation has stabilized and even fallen in many developing and emerging market countries that have enacted capital market reforms(Kim and Singal 2000)