The Kuwait stock exchange index is examined for evidence of a day-of-the-week effect. A nonlinear GARCH(1,1) model provides a good explanation of the data and allows identification and modelling of the day-of-the-week effect.

This paper examines the UK FT30 stock index during the Second World War period 1939-1945 for weak form efficiency, showing that there is substantial structure in the data, albeit in two distinct subsets. Fitting a GARCH (p, q) model to each data subset yields R -2 values of around 19%; clear...

The validity of the weak form of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) is tested for the FTSE 30 share index during a period when government economic policy towards the financial markets was relatively unchanging. The EMH would suggest random walk behaviour but this does not occur; instead the...

Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalization embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency in order to survive. We employ the Simar-Wilson (2007) two-step double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to measure whether cost efficiency among Jamaican banks has...

This article examines the convergence properties of cost efficiency for Indonesian banks for the period 1992--2007. It employs the Simar and Wilson's (2007) two stage semi-parametric double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) procedure to estimate cost efficiency. Using panel data...

This article evaluates the performance of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking industry in the context of the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) hypothesis in the period 1993 to 2002. This article uses panel estimation differentiating between bank fixed effects and country fixed...