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Testing the Weak Form Efficiency of Pakistani Stock Market (2000 2010)

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  • Abdul Haque

    (Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Lahore, Pakistan.)

  • Hung-Chun Liu

    (Department of Finance, Minghsin University of Science and Technology,Taiwan)

  • Fakhar-Un-Nisa

    (Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Lahore, Pakistan.)

Abstract

This empirical paper tests out the weak form efficiency of Pakistani stock market by examining the weekly KSE ?100 index over the period 2000 ? 2010 . Return series has a leptokurtic and negatively skewed distribution, which is away from normal distribution as reflected by significant Jarque-Bera statistic. Estimated results of ADF (1979), PP (1988) and KPSS (1992) tests, Ljung-Box Q-Statistic of autocorrelations and runs test of randomness reject the Random Walk Hypothesis (RWH) for the returns series. Moreover the results of variance ratio test (Lo and MacKinlay (1988)) also reject the RWH and prove the robustness of other estimated results. The rejection of RWH reveals that the Pakistani stock prices are not Weak Form Efficient.

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  • Abdul Haque & Hung-Chun Liu & Fakhar-Un-Nisa, 2011. "Testing the Weak Form Efficiency of Pakistani Stock Market (2000 2010)," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 1(4), pages 153-162.
    • Handle: RePEc:eco:journ1:2011-04-2
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    Keywords

    Weak Form Efficiency; Variance Raito; Random Walk;
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    JEL classification:

    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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