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Empirical investigation of stock price dynamics in an emerging market

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  • Palágyi, Zoltán
  • Mantegna, Rosario N.

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We study the development of an emerging market – the Budapest Stock Exchange – by investigating the time evolution of some statistical properties of heavily traded stocks. Moving quarter by quarter over a period of two and a half years we analyze the scaling properties of the standard deviation of intra-day log-price changes. We observe scaling using both seconds and ticks as units of time. For the investigated stocks a Levy shape is a good approximation to the probability density function of tick-by-tick log-price changes in each quarter: the index of the distribution follows an increasing trend, suggesting it could be used as a measure of market efficiency.

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  • Palágyi, Zoltán & Mantegna, Rosario N., 1999. "Empirical investigation of stock price dynamics in an emerging market," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 269(1), pages 132-139.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:269:y:1999:i:1:p:132-139
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00087-4
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    4. Janecskó, Balázs, 2000. "Idősor-modellezés és opcióárazás csonkolt Lévy-eloszlással [Time-series modelling and option pricing with a truncated Lévy distribution]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(11), pages 899-917.

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