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, etc. putting in question the notion of market efficiency and thereafter the predictability of assets returns. In the same …
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remain highly fragmented, small, illiquid and technologically weak, severely affecting their informational efficiency …. Therefore, this study attempts to empirically ascertain whether African stock markets can improve their informational efficiency … of statistically significant weak form informational efficiency of the African continent-wide share price indices over …
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This study aimed to test five fundamental factors (growth, profitability, leverage, liquidity, and efficiency) and two …
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employed to assess the weak-form efficiency of Khartoum Stock Exchange (KSE) market. The finding of the paper indicates the …
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The chaos theory assumes that the returns dynamics are not normally distributed and more complex approaches have to be used to study these time series. In fact, the Fractal Market Hypothesis assumes that the returns dynamics are not independent of the investors’ attitudes and represent the...
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We derive a canonical representation for the no-arbitrage discrete-time term structure models with both observable and unobservable state variables, popularized by Ang and Piazzesi (2003). We conduct a specification analysis based on this canonical representation. We show that some of the...
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This paper investigates a sample of 27 OECD countries to test whether national elections induce higher stock market volatility. It is found that the country-specific component of index return variance can easily double during the week around an Election Day, which shows that investors are...
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In this article we discuss the fundamentals of pricing of the popular financial instruments. The basic point of our approach is to extend the present value benchmark concept. The present value valuation approach plays the similar role as The Newton Laws in the Classic Mechanics. Thus our primary...
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This study examines the day-of-the-week effects in the Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea stock markets. Various significant day-of-the-week effects, including the typical negative Monday and positive Friday effects are detected in the stock markets Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong....
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Evidence suggests that arbitragers exchange investment ideas. We analyze why and under what circumstances sharing occurs. Our model suggests that sharing ideas will lead to the following: more efficient asset prices, larger arbitrager profits, and correlated arbitrager returns. We predict that...
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