Random‐walk and efficiency tests of Central European equity markets

Managerial Finance - 2003
Claire G.Gilmore1, Ginette M.McManus2
1McGowan School of Business, King’s College, Wilkes‐Barre, PA 18711, USA
2Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131‐1395, USA

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The existence of weak‐form efficiency in the equity markets of the three main Central European transition economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland) is examined for the period July 1995 through September 2000, using weekly Investable and Comprehensive indexes developed by the International Finance Corporation. Several different approaches are used. Univariate and multivariate tests provide some evidence that stock prices in these exchanges exhibit a random walk, which constitutes evidence for weakform efficiency. This differs in some cases from studies using data for the initial years of these markets. The variance ratio test (VR) of Lo and MacKinlay (1988) yields somewhat mixed results concerning the random‐walk properties of the indexes. A modelcomparison test compares forecasts from a NAÏVE model with ARIMA and GARCH alternatives. Results from the model‐comparison approach are consistent in rejecting the random‐walk hypothesis for the three Central European equity markets.

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