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Is the Housing Market in the United States Really Weakly-Efficient?

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  • Aviral Kumar Tiwari

    (Montpellier Business School, 2300, Avenue des Moulins, 34185, Montpellier Cedex 4 0002, France)

  • Rangan Gupta

    (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)

  • Mark E. Wohar

    (College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6708 Pine Street, Omaha, NE 68182, USA, and School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK)

Abstract

We analyze the directional predictability of a daily dataset of aggregate and regional (10 major metropolitan cities) housing markets of the United States using the quantilogram – a model-free procedure. We overwhelmingly reject the weak-form of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), which has been derived thus far by the extant literature based on unit root tests and long-memory models.

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  • Aviral Kumar Tiwari & Rangan Gupta & Mark E. Wohar, 2019. "Is the Housing Market in the United States Really Weakly-Efficient?," Working Papers 201934, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Correlogram; dependence; quantiles; efficiency; housing markets; US;
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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
    • R31 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Housing Supply and Markets

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