TESTING THE WEAK-FORM EFFICIENCY OF THE ROMANIAN CAPITAL MARKET BY ASSESSING THE RANDOM WALK-LIKE BEHAVIOUR OF STOCK PRICES
This paper attempts to test the efficiency of the Romanian Capital Market by assessing some basic statistical properties of prices for the ten most liquid stocks listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. More specifically, by testing if stock price series exhibit a random walk-like behaviour. For ro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academica Brâncuşi
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie |
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| Online Access: | http://www.utgjiu.ro/revista/ec/pdf/2015-02/38_PAsca.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper attempts to test the efficiency of the Romanian Capital Market by assessing some basic statistical
properties of prices for the ten most liquid stocks listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. More specifically, by testing
if stock price series exhibit a random walk-like behaviour. For robustness of the results, two unit root tests—the
Augmented Dickey-Fuller and the Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin—are used to measure stationarity for both
prices and returns, and determine if price dynamics is determined by an order one integrated process (a proxy for the
random walk). Further Lo and MacKinley‘s Variance Ratio Test is applied to study if the variance of returns is a linear
time-dependent function (a well-known property of a random variable). The analysis is done for a period between 15
October 1997, or the listing date on the stock exchange, respectively, and 10 April 2013, for both daily and weekly
observations. Furthermore, to take into account the distortive effects of the financial turmoil from 2007-2009 on market
efficiency, a separate analysis has been conducted for two sub-periods, pre- and post-recession, respectively. |
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| ISSN: | 1844-7007 1844-7007 |