Market Efficiency and Return Statistics: Evidence from Real Estate and Stock Markets Using a Present-Value Approach

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuming Fu ◽  
Lilian K. Ng
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Present Value

Anomalies: Parimutuel Betting Markets: Racetracks and Lotteries

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H Thaler ◽  
William T Ziemba
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Present Value ◽  
Betting Markets ◽  
Future Cash Flows ◽  
Termination Point ◽  
Parimutuel Betting

Economists have given great attention to stock markets in their efforts to test the concepts of market efficiency and rationality. Yet wagering markets are, in one key respect, better suited for testing market efficiency and rationality. The advantage of wagering markets is that each asset (bet) has a well-defined termination point at which its value becomes certain. The absence of this property is one of the factors that has made it so difficult to test for rationality in the stock market. Since a stock is infinitely lived, its value today depends both on the present value of future cash flows and on the price someone will pay for the security tomorrow. Indeed, one can argue that wagering markets have a better chance of being efficient because the conditions (quick, repeated feedback) are those which usually facilitate learning. However, empirical research has uncovered several interesting anomalies. While there are numerous types of wagering markets, legal and otherwise, this column will concentrate on racetrack betting and lotto-type lottery games.

Integrating A- and B-Share Markets in China: The Effects of Regulatory Policy Changes on Market Efficiency

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changjiang Lu ◽  
Kemin Wang ◽  
Haiwei Chen ◽  
James Chong
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Price Differential ◽  
Chinese Stock Markets ◽  
A Share

We investigate the effectiveness of two recent regulatory policy changes on market efficiency in the Chinese A- and B-share markets. Overall, the opening of the B-share market to domestic Chinese investors and the limited opening of the A-share market to foreign investors increase market efficiency. The opening of the B-share market significantly reduces the price differential between A- and B-shares. Furthermore, there is no longer feedback in returns between the two markets in recent years. Our results provide evidence that there is no detrimental effect to market efficiency by integrating Chinese investors to international markets and foreign investors to the Chinese stock markets.

Market efficiency of african stock markets: A Meta-Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Numapau Gyamfi ◽  
Kwabena A. Kyei ◽  
Ryan Gill
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Meta Analysis

It Was Cotton Money Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
Financial Speculation ◽  
The World ◽  
Cotton Fields ◽  
War Bonds ◽  
Egyptian Cotton

Yaʿqūb Ṣarrūf’s first foray in the novel genre, Fatāt Miṣr (The Girl of Egypt) was serialized as a literary supplement to Al-Muqtaṭaf over the course of 1905. A tale of finance capital’s restless wandering in Egyptian cotton fields, Cairo apartment buildings, Japanese war bonds, and the stock markets of the world -- from London, to St. Petersburg, Tokyo and back to Cairo --, Fatāt Miṣr met with critical praise upon its initial publication. Soon forgotten, the novel has been left unread by Arabic literary critics, despite the prescient augury it held for how a culture of speculation in Arabic would culminate in Egypt less than two years later in the stock and real estate crash of 1907. Indeed, the plot of Fatāt Miṣr owes much to Ṣarrūf’s own personal financial speculation in Egyptian land.

Testing for Overreaction and Return Continuations in Stock Price Index Returns

2012 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Nathan Lael Joseph ◽  
Khelifa Mazouz
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Price Index ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Price Shocks ◽  
Stock Indices ◽  
Stock Price Index ◽  
Initial Results

In this paper, the authors examine the impacts of large price changes (or shocks) on the abnormal returns (ARs) of a set of 39 national stock indices. Their initial results support returns continuations for both positive and negative shocks in line with prior results. After controlling for market size, their findings provide support for over-reaction, return continuations and market efficiency, but these result depend on the magnitude of the price shocks. Whilst the market is efficient when the positive shocks are large, the market also over-reacts when negative shocks are large. To illustrate, for large stock markets that are more liquid, positive shocks of more than 5% generate an insignificant day one CAR of -0.004%, whilst negative shocks of more than 5% generate a positive and significant day one CAR of 0.662%. In contrast, positive (negative) shocks of less than 5% generate a significant one day CAR of 0.119% (-0.174%) for these same (large) stock markets.

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