This study evaluates one of the most important emerging markets, India, for its efficiency and for its potential to offer diversification benefits to international investors. Two of the markets in India are analyzed (Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and Indian National Exchange (INE)) for their...

Call markets are claimed to aggregate information and facilitate price discovery where continuous markets may fail. Its advantage, however, comes at the cost of immediacy. The impact of the introduction of call auction has not been found uniformly beneficial, possibly due to poor design or due...

In this study we use a comprehensive database of mutual funds and study performance persistence across different styles, regions, and asset classes. While we find strong evidence of performance persistence for some markets, there is weak or no evidence for other markets. Contrary to popular...

The aim of this article is to investigate the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) stock markets for the period January 2000 to April 2011. We test whether these markets are efficient individually and collectively using a number of statistical...

This paper examines the impact of increased pre-close transparency on the effectiveness of stock closing call. On January 1, 2003, the Taiwan Stock Exchange increases pre-close transparency by disclosing the best five bid and ask prices and related unexecuted orders before market closing. At the...

China launched a pilot scheme in March 2010 to lift the ban on short-selling and margin-trading for stocks on a designated list. We find that stocks experience negative returns when added to the list. After the ban is lifted, price efficiency increases while stock return volatility decreases....

We re-examine the market efficiency of commodity futures using a new approach that accounts for both time-varying risk premium and conditional heteroscedasticity of spot prices. The conventional market efficiency tests so far in the literature are based on either risk neutral or constant risk...

This study investigates the impact of foreign investors on the informational efficiency of stock prices in local markets. Using a large sample of Japanese firms over the period 1975 to 2008, we find that prices deviate less from a random walk for stocks with a large change in foreign ownership....

This exploratory paper is among the first to examine the impact of stock exchange mergers on informational market efficiency. We focus on the merger of Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa e Porto Portuguese Stock Exchange) with Euronext in 2002 (that created Euronext Lisbon). To investigate this question...

This investigation is among the first to examine the impact of stock market liberalization on the efficiency of Latin American stock markets. It is also among the first to apply the martingale hypothesis test and a stochastic dominance approach to study the issue of efficient markets. Daily...