Testing the weak form of efficient market hypothesis in carbon efficient stock indices along with their benchmark indices in select countries

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

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 indic...

Weak-Form Efficiency In The German Stock Market

Making inefficient market indices efficient

The concept of efficient portfolios plays an important role in modern financial theory and practice. Although there is an extensive and growing literature that focuses on testing portfolio efficiency, outside of mean-variance optimization, which has several serious shortcomings, no systematic methodology for building efficient portfolios from inefficient indices has been developed. This paper a...

a review of tests on the weak form of efficient market hypothesis

the purpose of this article is to present the summary of all the research done on the weak form of efficient market hypothesis. these tests include normality test of return distribution, auto correlation test. run test and filter tests.

Testing on Weak Form Market Efficiency Hypothesis: The Evidence from Dhaka Stock Market Year 2004-2012

The purpose of this study is to test The Weak Form Efficient Market Hypothesis in Dhaka’s Stock Market. The study examined the distribution of equity returns by dividing the sample period into two sub periods of daily DSE General Index (DGEN) and sub periods are sample-1(2004-2007), and sample-2 (2008-2012). Also, monthly general index starting from 1990 to 2012 are taken as sample to test the ...

Predicting stock market indices movements

This paper examines the extent to which the daily movements of three large emerging markets stock indices are predictable. Lagged technical indicators are used as explanatory variables. In the analysis we employed seven classification techniques and assessed the discriminatory power of the classifiers through the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The results show tha...