Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices

In this paper, we examine the weak-form market efficiency for Malaysian sectoral stock market for the years 1996 to 2006. We focus on the random walk test under the structural change triggered by the Asian financial crisis and the drastic currency control by the Malaysian government. Our empirica...

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Main Authors: Chin , Wen Cheong, Zaidi Isa, Abu Hassan Shaari Mohd Nor
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Published: Penerbit ukm 2008
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1865/
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Zaidi Isa,
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description In this paper, we examine the weak-form market efficiency for Malaysian sectoral stock market for the years 1996 to 2006. We focus on the random walk test under the structural change triggered by the Asian financial crisis and the drastic currency control by the Malaysian government. Our empirical results evidence a sharp contrast with the results based on the traditional unit-root test which does not take into account the effect of economic crisis. With these empirical findings, we conclude that the Malaysian stock markets are dominated by mean-reverting processes (except for Property index) under the structural change
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spelling ukm-18652011-06-15T07:24:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1865/ Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices Chin , Wen Cheong Zaidi Isa, Abu Hassan Shaari Mohd Nor , In this paper, we examine the weak-form market efficiency for Malaysian sectoral stock market for the years 1996 to 2006. We focus on the random walk test under the structural change triggered by the Asian financial crisis and the drastic currency control by the Malaysian government. Our empirical results evidence a sharp contrast with the results based on the traditional unit-root test which does not take into account the effect of economic crisis. With these empirical findings, we conclude that the Malaysian stock markets are dominated by mean-reverting processes (except for Property index) under the structural change Penerbit ukm 2008-07 Article PeerReviewed Chin , Wen Cheong and Zaidi Isa, and Abu Hassan Shaari Mohd Nor , (2008) Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices. Journal of Quality Measurement and Analysis, 4 (1). pp. 179-188. ISSN 1823-5670 http://www.ukm.my/~ppsmfst/jqma/index.html
spellingShingle Chin , Wen Cheong
Zaidi Isa,
Abu Hassan Shaari Mohd Nor ,
Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices
title Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices
title_full Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices
title_fullStr Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices
title_full_unstemmed Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices
title_short Pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for Malaysian daily stock indices
title_sort pre- and post-economic crisis weak-form market efficiency analysis for malaysian daily stock indices
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1865/
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