Testing Weak-Form Efficient Capital Market Case Study: TSE and DJUS Indices

Authors

  • حسنعلی سینایی دانشیار دانشکده اقتصاد و علوم اجتماعی، گروه مدیریت دانشگاه شهید چمران، اهواز، ایران
  • پویا محمدی کارشناس ارشد مدیریت بازرگانی گرایش مالی دانشگاه شهید چمران، اهواز، ایران.
Abstract:

The present study investigated weak-form market information efficiency in Tehran security exchange (TSE) as an emerging market and in Dow Jones United States security exchange (DJUS) as a developed market based on random walk model. In each market, the random walk model was examined using daily and monthly returns of a set of indices. The results of the parametric and non-parametric tests indicated that the daily returns are not independent and identically distributed in TSE. Moreover, according to the results of the variance ratio test, a trending behavior in daily returns and mean-reversion behavior in monthly returns were observed. In DJUS, however, the daily returns were found to be independent and identically distributed and the results of variance ratio test did not confirm that the returns follow a particular pattern in this market.

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volume 14  issue 2

pages  167- 192

publication date 2017-08-23

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