Full Title: Weak-form Efficient Market Hypothesis‚ Behavioural Finance and Episodic Transient Dependencies: The Case of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Kian-Ping Lima‚ Venus Khim-Sen Liewb and Hock-Tsen Wongc a Authors: Affiliation: b c Labuan School of International Business and Finance Universiti Malaysia Sabah P.O.Box 80594 87015 W.P. Labuan‚ Malaysia Department of Economics Faculty of Economics and Management Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor‚ Malaysia School
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Validity of Efficient Market Hypothesis THE CONTRASTING EVIDENCE OF THE VALIDITY OF THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS There is apparently plenty of divergence relating to the validity of efficient market hypothesis (EMH)‚ some academics or financial gurus support efficient market hypothesis while there are some who assert that efficient market hypothesis and random walk theory are flawed concepts in the post-financial crisis era. Beginning with the definition of efficient market hypothesis‚ it states
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The Semi - Strong Form of the efficient market hypothesis One of the major theories that form the basis of financial market is the efficient market hypothesis. The extreme position of those who advocate the efficient market hypothesis claims that all the market requires is basic financial information. The semi-strong form of the efficient market hypothesis states that the market incorporates all the known information about a stock‚ the current price reflects this information‚ and this information
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What contribution can behavioural finance make to the explanation of stock market bubbles and crashes? Introduction Efficient markets hypothesis markets can adjust by themselves‚ because there are rational and irrational investors. But stock bubbles and crashes just like evils followed the world global economy in last decades. Readhead (2008) suggested that behavioural finance applies the psychology of decision-making to investment behaviour‚ and it can be useful to show the irrational
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Behavioral finance: Emerging trends --Nihar Raut raut.nihar@gmail.com What is behavioral finance? What we know today as behavioral finance was initiated some three decades ago by a small number of people who asked questions seldom asked before and offered answers not offered before. Today‚ many people are engaged in behavioral finance‚ and there is wide disagreement about its boundaries and frontiers. Many see behavioral finance mainly as a refutation of the efficient market hypothesis and as
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From the Efficient Market Hypothesis to Behavioral Finance How Investors’ Psychology Changes the Vision of Financial Markets by ADAM SZYSZKA Poznan University of Economics Poland adam.szyszka@ae.poznan.pl I. Introduction The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) has been the key proposition of traditional (neoclassical) finance for almost forty years. In his classic paper‚ Fama (1970) defined an efficient market as one in which “security prices always fully reflect the available information”
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whether or not there are behavioral aspects in finance. This means that financial markets are subject to different investors’ sentiments and that markets are not efficient‚ i.e. the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) does not hold. The supporters of EMH argue that all available information is included in the stock prices‚ which means that any long-term abnormal returns earned are a matter of chance. On the other side‚ the supporters of behavioral finance argues that because of over- and under-reaction
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EFFICIENT MARKET THEORY AND TESTS Introduction Market Efficiency A market is said to be efficient if prices in that market reflect all available information. Market efficiency refers to a condition in which current stock prices reflect all the publicly available information about a security. Efficient market emerges when new information is quickly incorporated into the share price so that the price becomes information. In other words the current market price reflects all available information
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IMPLICATION OF MARKET IMPERFECTIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FINANCE As the period section shows‚ the operation of capital markets does not match the assumptions underlying perfect competition but instead is characterized by market imperfections that can create capital availability gaps. Despite the united states well developed capital markets‚ a firm’s location‚ industry‚ amount and form of capital needed and the number and type of financial institutions serving its area can all affect its access
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Exchange. Whether or not to invest in the capital market is a matter of personal attitude towards the corporate reality. If the answer is positive‚ the companies in which to invest and designing an optimal portfolio investment is a matter of calculations. Differentiating risk is often difficult and an investor should be acknowledged that there is no zero risk in trading with securities. Even corporate bonds‚ which are considered riskless in the capital market‚ are exposed to political risks that are outside
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