This paper tests weak-form market efficiency of CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa) over the period 2002-2012. We apply unit root tests and variance ratio tests to investigate if these equity markets follow a random walk. The empirical results indicate that our...

This paper investigates the relationship between stock price and trading volume in twenty four international equity indices for the period 2002-2007. This study begins with testing for stationarity, and then uses a VAR model to implement the Granger Causality test. Empirical results are mixed...

This paper investigates the Islamic calendar seasonal anomalies in the stock returns of twelve countries where the majority of the population are Muslims. We show empirical evidence of statistically significant Islamic calendar seasonal effects in all twelve countries of our sample. We document...

The main objective of this study is to examine the performance of hotel stocks and lodging real estate investment trusts (REITs) by estimating the recent Fama-French five-factor model (including investment and profitability factors) with an additional momentum factor during the 2000–2015...

This paper analyses the pricing efficiency of exchange traded funds (ETFs) as measured by the level and persistence of the deviation between market prices and net asset value (NAV). Studying ETFs tracking the unexplored Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), we find that Saudi Arabia exhibits the...

We investigate the degree of return predictability of lodging/resort real estate investment trusts (REITs) from January 1994 to May 2016. We test the Martingale hypothesis by using linear (automatic portmanteau and automatic variance ratio with rolling windows) and nonlinear tests (generalized...