Weak-Form Market Efficiency in India and Its Emerging Asian Counterparts

Download or read book Weak-Form Market Efficiency in India and Its Emerging Asian Counterparts written by B. J. Queensly Jeyanthi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of efficient market research has focused on the major US and European securities market. Very few research studies have investigated the markets of developing and less-developed countries. In this study, the existence of weak-form efficiency of Asian emerging stock markets is analyzed. The sample includes the daily price indices namely China (SSEC), Indonesia (JKSE), Kuala Lumpur (KLSE), Korea (KS11), Taiwan (TWII) and India (Nifty) for the period of April 1, 1998 to March 31, 2009. The hypothesis of the study is whether the Asian emerging stock market is weak-form efficient. The results of Kolmogrov-Smirnov normality test and run test, autocorrelation test and Ljung-Box (LB) test provide evidence that the share return series do not follow random walk model and the significant autocorrelation coefficient at different lags reject the null hypothesis of weak-form efficiency. But the unit root hypothesis provides sufficient evidence that stock prices of Asian emerging markets follow random walk process. On the basis of the unit root test (nonstationarity) it can be concluded that the Asian emerging markets are weak-form efficient. This research enables the security analysts, investors and security exchange regulatory bodies to make policy decisions and to improve the market condition.