Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
2010
Department
Management Science
Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to indicate the existence of certain time series characteristics in daily stock returns of four small Asian (Pacific basin) financial markets. It aims to study efficient capital markets (efficient markets hypothesis (EMH)) as results may infer that there are predictable properties of the time series of prices of traded securities on organized markets in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and Indonesia.
Design/methodology/approach - The paper analyses daily variations in financial market data obtained from the Sandra Ann Morsilli Pacific‐basin Capital Markets Research Center (PACAP).
Findings - The weak form efficiency test example examines the wide range of trading rules available to common investors. Some theorists try to convince everyone that the weak form of EMH is acceptable due to the weight of academic opinion. The paper finds that for short‐term (daily) changes, the markets of four of the smaller Pacific‐basin stock markets have predictable properties, which leads to the conclusion that the weak‐form EMH does not hold for these markets.
Research limitations/implications - The study is limited to those firms and exchanges studied and the time period covered.
Originality/value - There have been all too few studies of these small financial markets up to now and there is no other study utilizing these data on the Pacific basin (Asia). The results are unique and original.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Management Research Review
Volume
33
Issue
12
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Jarrett, J.E. (2010), "Efficient markets hypothesis and daily variation in small Pacific‐basin stock markets", Management Research Review, Vol. 33 No. 12, pp. 1128-1139. https://doi.org/10.1108/01409171011092185
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/01409171011092185
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