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In: Journal of Business, Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 4, 2007 erstellt
Beschreibung:
In an efficient market, the actions of the many competing participants, leads to actual prices already reflecting the effects of current information and the actual price of a security to wander randomly about its intrinsic value. The fact that the market is efficient is important for the public economy when it comes to the distribution of scarce resources as it acts as an intermediary of capital distribution from savers to investors through the mechanism of price. In Pakistan, securities market has a special significance due to its sensitivity to political turmoil, expectations, prospects of stocks and insider's information. With such indicators, it only seems logical to test the efficiency of the stock market in light of the existence of random walk phenomena.In this study, historical stock prices on a monthly and daily basis have been used from a sample period of July 1996 to June 2006 of KSE 100 Index Companies. A time line of 10 years has been chosen to test the efficiency of the Pakistani Stock market. Thus, the total number of observations is 121 for monthly data and 2218 for daily data. Consequently, ANOVA method has been used to quantify the data.The results conclude that the random-walk hypothesis can be accepted for both monthly and daily returns. There is no day of the week effect or the 'month effect'. Thus, the random walk theory is valid for the KSE which can be termed as an efficient market