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World stock markets: some random walk tests

John C. B. Cooper
- 01 Oct 1982 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 5, pp 515-531
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In this article, the authors present a random walk test for the stock market and the results show that the test shows that the random walk tests do not work well for many stock markets.
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(1982). World stock markets: some random walk tests. Applied Economics: Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 515-531.

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Market efficiency in developing countries: a case study of the nairobi stock exchange

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the traditional random walk methodology of serial correlation and runs tests as applied by Fama (1965), Cooper (1982), and Taylor (1986) rather than the newer methodologies of variance ratios [Lo and MacKinlay (1988)] and of regression [Jegadeesh (1990)].
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Return predictability in African stock markets

TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear autoregressive process with conditional heteroscedasticity was used to investigate the weak-form pricing efficiency of 11 African stock markets, including Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Swaziland.
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An empirical analysis of the equity markets in China

TL;DR: In this article, the newly established stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen were subjected to tests of market efficiency, utilizing daily stock price data, and the authors concluded that there are significant inefficiencies present on both exchanges.
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Seasonality, risk and return in daily COMEX gold and silver data 1982–2002

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The behaviour of Athens stock prices

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The random character of stock market prices

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- 01 Sep 1965 - 
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