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Weak-Form Market Efficiency In Asian Emerging And Developed Equity Markets: Comparative Tests Of Random Walk Behaviour, A. C. Worthington, H. Higgs
Weak-Form Market Efficiency In Asian Emerging And Developed Equity Markets: Comparative Tests Of Random Walk Behaviour, A. C. Worthington, H. Higgs
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This paper examines the weak-form market efficiency of Asian equity markets. Daily returns for ten emerging (China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand) and five developed markets (Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore) are examined for random walks using serial correlation coefficient and runs tests, Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron and Kwiatkowski, Phillips, Schmidt and Shin unit root tests and multiple variance ratio tests. The serial correlation and runs tests conclude that all of the markets are weak-form inefficient. The unit root tests suggest weak-form efficiency in all markets, with the exception of Australia …