Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the pricing efficiency of Saudi Sharia-compliant (i.e. Islamic) exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Design/methodology/approach: The paper adheres to a positivist research philosophy with a deductive research approach where data is collected, analyzed and...

Sarkar, Salil

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test for the presence of bubbles in the US lodging/hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) subsector from 1994 to 2016. It also compares the profitability of a buy-and-hold strategy with several technical trading rules when applied to lodging REITs....

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...