Download or read book The Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets written by Arusha Cooray and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Development and Efficiency in Emerging Stock Markets written by Kamil Yilmaz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990s emerging stock markets evolved from small and shallow into sizeable and liquid markets integrated with the world financial system. This paper empirically studies the conjecture that the relationship between market development and efficiency can be possibly captured by the weak-form market efficiency tests applied to moving subsample windows. The variance-ratio-based multiple comparison test (MCT) is applied to weekly and daily returns for 21 emerging stock markets over the 1988-2000 period. For each country, the MCT is used to test for random walk in subsample windows with fixed starting-point and moving end-points as well as those with fixed end-point and moving starting-points. Tests on both weekly and daily return series indicate that over time there is a move toward market efficiency. In those markets that showed rapid development, it becomes difficult to reject the random walk hypothesis as observations pertaining to earlier periods are dropped from the sample. However, in Mexico and the East Asian countries stock price behavior started to diverge from RW behavior soon after the reversal of portfolio equity flows during the financial crises that affected these countries.
Download or read book Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets written by Wing-Keung Wong and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Efficient Market Hypothesis believes that it is impossible for an investor to outperform the market because all available information is already built into stock prices. However, some anomalies could persist in stock markets while some other anomalies could appear, disappear and re-appear again without any warning. A Special Issue on "Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets" will be devoted to advancements in the theoretical development of market efficiency and anomaly in the Stock Market, as well as applications in Stock Market efficiency and anomalies.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Emerging Stock Markets written by Mohamed El Hedi Arouri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research in emerging stock markets has been particularly challenged by their fast changes in nature and size under the effects of financial liberalization and reforms. This evolving feature has particularly led to a commensurate increase in sophistication of modeling techniques used for understanding financial markets. In this spirit, the book aims at providing the audience a comprehensive understanding of emerging stock markets in various aspects using modern financial econometric methods. It addresses the empirical techniques needed by economic agents to analyze the dynamics of these markets and illustrates how they can be applied to the actual data. On the other hand, it presents and discusses new research findings and their implications.
Download or read book The Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets written by Abdelmoneim Youssef and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the efficiency in pricing securities as well as the relation between exchange rate and dynamics of equity returns in a number of emerging stock markets from Africa and Asia,. This study utilizes methodologies based on Single variance ratio test of Lo and Mackinlay (1988), multiple variance tests of Chow and Denning (1993), individual variance test based on ranks and signs of Wright (2000), Wild bootstrap test of Chow and Denning introduced by Kim (2006), and joint version of sign test of Wright by Kim and Shamsuddin (2008). Results shows that Egyptian, Moroccan and Indian exchanges are not in conformity with the Random Walk Hypothesis (RWH) from the perspective of both local and international investors. Whereas the first two markets are considered inefficient in pricing equities, from the perspective of both local and international investors, when monthly returns are employed. The Indian market supports that testing for RWH is sensitive to the frequency of data used. It is worth mentioning that empirical results demonstrate also insensitivity of testing of RWH to exchange rate changes. The main significance of our study is the use of the latest test methodologies in analyzing an investment area that is growing in the emerging stock markets.
Download or read book Efficient Market Hypothesis written by Mario Chinas and published by Library of Cyprus. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Black & White version of the book, available at a discount, which does not include the research data and analysis tables. There is also a Full Colour version that includes all the research data and analysis tables. What is a Stock Market? How do stock markets operate? Who invests in a stock market and when is it an appropriate tool for investment? Why do we care if a stock market is efficient or not? Where can we find evidence of market efficiency? With what tools can we test market efficiency?These are some of the questions that this book approaches. The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is a theory in financial economics, developed by Eugene Fama, which states that asset prices fully reflect all available information. Thus, it is implied that stocks always trade at their fair value, making it impossible for investors to "beat the market" via technical or fundamental analysis, since market prices should only react to new information.There are three variants of the EMH: "weak," "semi-strong," and "strong" form. The weak form of the EMH claims that prices already reflect all past publicly available market information. The semi-strong form claims that prices reflect all publicly available information, thus price changes occur to reflect new publicly available information. The strong form adds to this that prices instantly reflect even hidden private "insider" information.Testing the EMH is no easy task: Quantifying the availability of information and its effect on prices and market efficiency is challenging, making research on the subject difficult, time consuming and open to criticism. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that markets at best reach semi-strong form efficiency, with weak form efficiency being the norm. However, even this is challenged by the critics of EMH, via concepts such as Behavioural Finance.This book aims to familiarise the reader with the concept of EMH, covering the fundamentals and relevant literature. We then discuss market efficiency tests for Weak Form Market Efficiency, examining in more detail the day-of-the-week effect and its significance on stock market efficiency. The day-of-the-week effect is defined as a pattern where a certain day of the week has abnormal returns continuously. It is an anomaly that violates the random walk hypothesis, and thus implies that a market is not Weak Form efficient.We put theory into practice through the Empirical Research section which is divided into two parts, looking at two different approaches to researching the day-of-the-week effect, via the examination of actual research examples on a small European stock exchange. Both of these Thesis tested the hypothesis of random walk to determine the authenticity of weak form market efficiency for a small emerging stock market within the EU (the Cyprus Stock Exchange).
Download or read book Testing the Information Efficiency in Emerging Markets written by Ceyda Aktan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most common issues for investors regarding markets nowadays is to what extent these markets are efficient as all of them aim to increase their gains and beat the market as much as possible. This competition among them will inevitably result in markets becoming efficient and, therefore, prices quickly adjusting to the new coming information. Eventually, investors will most probably receive only a sum that makes up for the risk they took and the time value of money they invested. This is where market efficiency, its theory and forms come into question. There have been many researches conducted assessing the efficiency of different markets located throughout the world. However, there are still a lot of gaps in research involving emerging economies which needs to be completed for the sake of investment decisions. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to is to show how information efficiency relates to the stock markets of emerging economies, how it implicates investors, analyze the stock prices of 24 emerging economies to look for their weak form efficiency, and to put forward a set of commonalities found in results of literature relating to emerging market information efficiency.
Download or read book Efficient Market Hypothesis in Africa s Sub Saharan Stock Markets written by Sebastian Groh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim (Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Ökonometrie), course: Bachelorarbeit, language: English, abstract: In recent years foreign aid was often conditioned on good institutions. Due to this course the development of financial institutions has been considered vital for the development process. This thesis points in its theoretical part to the positive effects of efficient stock markets on economic growth and examines empirically the efficiency of Africa's sub-Saharan stock markets. Results are then compared with the same tests on four emerging markets in Asia and as a benchmark on S&P 500 and DAX. It discusses further the relationship between market efficiency and financial crisis and comes to the conclusion that a crisis worsens the respective efficiency level. Nevertheless, all African markets are at least able to pass the critical lowest hurdle of market efficiency. However, conclusions from the research propose, that the Asian markets perform better than the African markets, although the study comes to some inconclusive results. Limits to the efficient market hypothesis itself and its empirical analysis are shown throughout the paper. The study suggests that former reforms need to be intensified in order to avoid a further increase in overall income inequalities.
Download or read book Stock Market Opening and Efficiency in Emerging Market Stock Prices written by Hiroyuki Kawakatsu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we investigate three empirical aspects of emerging stock markets. First, we use the endogenous structural break techniques of Bai (1996) and Bai and Perron (1998) to identify stock market opening dates in 16 different emerging market countries. The results indicate that there is some weak evidence that endogenous break opening dates precede the official opening dates as described by other authors. This suggests that information prior to the official opening date influenced market activity. Second, using the endogenous break dates as the true opening dates, we examine whether the opening of the market improves stock market efficiency. Using two different forms of data and several econometric tests, we find that opening has generally not increased stock market efficiency. Indeed, it appears that the markets were as efficient before the openings as they were after. Third, we apply the endogenous break techniques to emerging market composite portfolios. We find that the overall composite portfolio shows little evidence of a structural break. However, the regional indexes do indicate breaks around important periods of financial change. The Latin American composite index displays a break exactly during the period when the Brady Debt reduction initiative was announced. The Asian composite index shows several breaks including the period close to the 1997 East Asian Financial Crisis.
Download or read book On the Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets in Central Europe written by Stefan Kolek and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Stock Market Liberalization on the Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets written by Sonali Jain-Chandra and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, many emerging markets have embarked on a course of economic reform, including stock market liberalization. This paper addresses the question of whether these markets have become more informationally efficient in the years following liberalization. We find that emerging stock markets become more efficient following liberalization. Additionally, using a panel data set on sixteen liberalizing countries and various measures of liquidity, we show that liberalization leads to enhanced liquidity after controlling for size and other factors. Furthermore, this paper addresses the question whether the increase in efficiency could be the result of an increase in liquidity. This paper concludes that an increase in liquidity leads to a decrease in market inefficiency. This confirms the intuition that enhanced liquidity might render emerging stock markets more efficient.
Download or read book Market Efficiency in Emerging Economies written by Deepa Mangala and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the presence of month-of-the-year effect in the stock index returns and volatility of emerging stock markets using GARCH (1, 1) model. The results show that the months around the end of the year and beginning of the New Year are marked by significant positive mean returns. This is evident from the presence of November/December/January effect in Argentine, Indian, Malaysian and Russian stock market returns. The months in the third quarter of the year, i.e., August and September, exhibit statistically significant negative mean coefficients for a majority of the stock markets. The volatility patterns are country-specific and no general trend can be discerned.
Download or read book Emerging Stock Markets written by Christopher Barry and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Stock Markets: Risk, Return, and Performance is a compendium of historical data currently available about the performance of securities in emerging markets. As a result, it will be an invaluable aid to the investor or investment manager trying to make informed decisions about investing in emerging market assets. The authors provide monthly stock return data for more than two dozen countries in the Emerging Markets Data Base maintained by the International Finance Corporation. Without such data, analysis of this fascinating asset class has been frustrated.
Download or read book The Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets and Their Relationships with the World s Major Stock Exchanges written by Assoé, Kodjovi G and published by Montréal : École des hautes études commerciales, Centre d'études en administration internationale. This book was released on 1994 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynamics of Emerging Stock Markets written by Abdelmoneim Youssef and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contest comprises a selection of topics that focus on African stock market performance. The main factor in this analysis is to examine the dynamic behavior of stock returns in a number of emerging stock markets from Asia and Africa, the efficiency in pricing securities as well as the relation between exchange rate and dynamics of equity returns. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the debate by examining some issues concerning the efficiency of market and the relation between exchange rate and equity returns. These issues have not been examined so far for both Asian and African stock markets together, so this paper attempts to fill that gap by addressing the following objectives, which are (1) to examine the Random Walk Hypothesis (RWH) for stock prices in Asian and African emerging Markets, (2) to determine whether exchange rates affect tests of equity returns in emerging markets, and (3)to investigate whether large capitalization stocks follow a random walk .The main significance of our study of these objectives is the use of the latest test methodologies in analyzing an investment area that is growing in the emerging stock markets.
Download or read book Efficient Market Hypothesis in Africa s Sub Saharan Stock Markets written by Sebastian Groh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim (Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Ökonometrie), course: Bachelorarbeit, language: English, abstract: In recent years foreign aid was often conditioned on good institutions. Due to this course the development of financial institutions has been considered vital for the development process. This thesis points in its theoretical part to the positive effects of efficient stock markets on economic growth and examines empirically the efficiency of Africa’s sub-Saharan stock markets. Results are then compared with the same tests on four emerging markets in Asia and as a benchmark on S&P 500 and DAX. It discusses further the relationship between market efficiency and financial crisis and comes to the conclusion that a crisis worsens the respective efficiency level. Nevertheless, all African markets are at least able to pass the critical lowest hurdle of market efficiency. However, conclusions from the research propose, that the Asian markets perform better than the African markets, although the study comes to some inconclusive results. Limits to the efficient market hypothesis itself and its empirical analysis are shown throughout the paper. The study suggests that former reforms need to be intensified in order to avoid a further increase in overall income inequalities.
Download or read book The Informational Efficiency of Emerging Stock Markets written by L'Her, J. F. (Jean-François) and published by Montréal : École des hautes études commerciales, Groupe de recherche en finance. This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
