Do Market Efficiency Measures Yield Correct Inferences? A Comparison of Developed and Emerging Markets
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- 13 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Review of Financial Studies
- Vol. 23 (8), 3225-3277
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhq044
Abstract
Using data from 56 markets, we find that short-term reversal, post-earnings drift, and momentum strategies earn similar returns in emerging and developed markets. Variance ratios and market delay measures often show greater deviations from random walk pricing in developed markets. Conceptually, we show that commonly used efficiency tests can yield misleading inferences because they do not control for the information environment. Our evidence corrects misperceptions that emerging markets feature larger trading profits and higher return autocorrelation, highlights crucial limitations of weak and semi-strong form efficiency measures, and points to the importance of measuring informational aspects of efficiency.This publication has 73 references indexed in Scilit:
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