An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market

This dissertation is an event study in the area of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), it focuses on exploring the impact of dividend announcements on share prices' movements in Hong Kong stock market. A sample of 43 companies containing 185 announcements within the recent 5 years is selected an...

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Main Author: Leng, Xinyu
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22078/
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description This dissertation is an event study in the area of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), it focuses on exploring the impact of dividend announcements on share prices' movements in Hong Kong stock market. A sample of 43 companies containing 185 announcements within the recent 5 years is selected and t-test is employed as means to test the statistical significance of abnormal returns around the announcement dates. The result of this study suggests that the Hong Kong stock market is inefficient with regard to the semi-strong form EMH.
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spelling nottingham-220782018-02-16T15:32:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22078/ An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market Leng, Xinyu This dissertation is an event study in the area of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), it focuses on exploring the impact of dividend announcements on share prices' movements in Hong Kong stock market. A sample of 43 companies containing 185 announcements within the recent 5 years is selected and t-test is employed as means to test the statistical significance of abnormal returns around the announcement dates. The result of this study suggests that the Hong Kong stock market is inefficient with regard to the semi-strong form EMH. 2008 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22078/1/08MAXinyuLeng.pdf Leng, Xinyu (2008) An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Leng, Xinyu
An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market
title An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market
title_full An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market
title_fullStr An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market
title_full_unstemmed An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market
title_short An Event Study: Efficient or Not? Share Prices' Reactions to Dividend Announcements in Hong Kong Stock Market
title_sort event study: efficient or not? share prices' reactions to dividend announcements in hong kong stock market
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22078/