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1) It defines the different forms of market efficiency proposed by Malkiel and Fama (1970) - weak, semi-strong, and strong - and how each reflects stock prices based on certain information.
2) It highlights several empirical tests that have been conducted to examine market efficiency in its different forms, such as tests of the weak form in Pakistan and India, and a test of the semi-strong form in Australia. The results were mixed, with some supporting efficiency and others not.
3) It discusses differing views on market efficiency, with some arguing markets efficiently reflect information, while others point to anomalies and
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Panel data has been collected for 44 Middle Eastern banks that are operated during 2005 to 2014 in different Middle Eastern countries. Secondary data has been collected primarily through the DataStream database. The study is conducted to investigate the impact of profitability, bank and macroeconomic factors on the market capitalization of the Middle Eastern banks. Results of Hausman test have explained that fixed effect model is appropriate for the analysis. The result of multiple regression have shown that market capitalization has positive relationship with ROI while negative relationship with credit risk, inflation, and year dummy for the Middle Eastern banks. Furthermore, no relationship has been observed between market capitalization and the ROA, ROE, growth and exchange rate for the Middle Eastern banks.
Emerging markets such as India provide the investors with returns far greater
than those in developed markets; taking the average returns from the period 1995 to
2014 the returns are 4.714% to 3.276% of the developed market (US not included).
Majority of emerging markets commenced joining with the capital market of the
world, thus allowing huge inflow of capital which in turn paved the path for economic
growth. Even though the emerging markets provide high returns these may also be an
indication of a bubble formation. Detection of a bubble is a tedious task primarily due
to the fundamental value of the security being uncertain, the randomness of the
fundamentals of the market make detecting bubbles an arduous task. Ratios that
foretold the financial crisis of 2007- Market Capitalization to GDP (Buffet Indicator),
Price to Earnings Ratio (PE Ratio), Price to Book Value (PB Ratio), Tobin’s Q. Data
is collected from the 1999-2000 from various Indian indices such as NIFTY 50, NIFTY
NEXT 50, NIFTY BANK, NIFTY 500 S&P BSE SENSEX, S&P BSE 100. The paper
utilizes the ratios mentioned above to detect and back track various bubble episodes in
the Indian market; methodology used is the Philips et al (2015) right tailed unit test.
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This document is a research proposal that aims to investigate the efficiency of the Ghana Stock Exchange through various statistical tests and analyses of time series properties. Specifically, it will examine forms of efficiency, factors associated with efficiency, how efficiency evolves over time, and stochastic properties. The study is justified because understanding an emerging market's efficiency is important for attracting investment and facilitating economic growth. The proposal provides background on definitions of market efficiency and cites several references to situate the research in the relevant literature.
This document presents an empirical test of the informational efficiency hypothesis on the Moroccan stock market. It begins with a literature review on the efficient market hypothesis and the three forms of market efficiency: weak, semi-strong, and strong. The authors then test for weak-form efficiency on the Moroccan stock market using daily MASI index data from 2002-2022. They employ runs tests, autocorrelation tests, unit root tests, and variance ratio tests. The results of all four tests show that the MASI index does not follow a random walk and reject the hypothesis of weak-form efficiency on the Moroccan stock market. The authors conclude that the Moroccan stock market is informationally inefficient in
Impact of profitability, bank and macroeconomic factors on the market capital...inventionjournals
Panel data has been collected for 44 Middle Eastern banks that are operated during 2005 to 2014 in different Middle Eastern countries. Secondary data has been collected primarily through the DataStream database. The study is conducted to investigate the impact of profitability, bank and macroeconomic factors on the market capitalization of the Middle Eastern banks. Results of Hausman test have explained that fixed effect model is appropriate for the analysis. The result of multiple regression have shown that market capitalization has positive relationship with ROI while negative relationship with credit risk, inflation, and year dummy for the Middle Eastern banks. Furthermore, no relationship has been observed between market capitalization and the ROA, ROE, growth and exchange rate for the Middle Eastern banks.
Emerging markets such as India provide the investors with returns far greater
than those in developed markets; taking the average returns from the period 1995 to
2014 the returns are 4.714% to 3.276% of the developed market (US not included).
Majority of emerging markets commenced joining with the capital market of the
world, thus allowing huge inflow of capital which in turn paved the path for economic
growth. Even though the emerging markets provide high returns these may also be an
indication of a bubble formation. Detection of a bubble is a tedious task primarily due
to the fundamental value of the security being uncertain, the randomness of the
fundamentals of the market make detecting bubbles an arduous task. Ratios that
foretold the financial crisis of 2007- Market Capitalization to GDP (Buffet Indicator),
Price to Earnings Ratio (PE Ratio), Price to Book Value (PB Ratio), Tobin’s Q. Data
is collected from the 1999-2000 from various Indian indices such as NIFTY 50, NIFTY
NEXT 50, NIFTY BANK, NIFTY 500 S&P BSE SENSEX, S&P BSE 100. The paper
utilizes the ratios mentioned above to detect and back track various bubble episodes in
the Indian market; methodology used is the Philips et al (2015) right tailed unit test.
The paper is also inclined to take steps to mitigate the effects of bubble by amending
the financial policies and the monetary liquidity of the financial system.
Ajekwe et al. 2017 testing the random walk theory in the nigerian stock marketNicholas Adzor
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Emerging Global Strategies for Indian Industry Bhadrappa Haralayya.pdfDR BHADRAPPA HARALAYYA
- The document analyzes the weak form efficiency of the Indian stock market, with a specific focus on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
- It employs statistical tests like run tests and autocorrelation tests on monthly closing index values from 2000-2013 to analyze randomness and independence of stock price changes over time.
- The results of the statistical tests show that the NSE is inefficient in the weak form, as past stock price data can be used to predict future price movements, violating the random walk hypothesis of weak form efficiency.
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This document discusses a study that examined the weak-form efficient market hypothesis in the Nigerian stock market from 1986 to 2010. The researchers tested for stationarity using the Augmented Dickey Fuller and Philip Perron tests, and used serial auto-correlation and regression analysis to test for random walks in stock prices. The results showed that stock prices do not exhibit random walks and are not informationally efficient. The study recommends stronger regulation and policies to develop the Nigerian stock market and enhance its informational efficiency.
Efficient market hypothesis and nigerian stock marketAlexander Decker
This document discusses a study that examined the weak-form efficient market hypothesis in the Nigerian stock market from 1986 to 2010. The researchers tested for stationarity using the Augmented Dickey Fuller and Philip Perron tests, and used serial auto-correlation and regression analysis to test for random walks in stock prices. The results showed that stock prices do not exhibit random walks and are not informationally efficient. The study recommends stronger regulation and policies to develop the Nigerian stock market and enhance its informational efficiency.
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Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/public-sector-management/23105/an-empirical-assessment-of-capital-asset-pricing-model-with-reference-to-national-stock-exchange/miss-yashashri-shinde"
11.[28 38]distribution of risk and return a statistical test of normality on ...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study that examined the normal distribution of risk and return on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh. The study used statistical tests to analyze daily, weekly, and monthly returns calculated from three DSE indices from 2002 to 2010. The results found evidence of skewness and kurtosis in the returns, indicating they were not normally distributed and contradicting the assumption of random walk behavior required for an efficient market. Additionally, inconsistencies were found between daily and weekly risk and return, suggesting higher returns may be possible without higher risk. The study aims to contribute to evaluating market efficiency and the relationship between risk and return in the Bangladesh capital market.
This document examines the relationship between stock market indices and macroeconomic variables in India during the post-globalization period. It provides background on studies that have explored this relationship in other countries and contexts. The study uses secondary data on macroeconomic indicators and the BSE Sensex index from 1992-2011. Growth trends for the Sensex and variables like GDP, capital formation, savings, and others are analyzed using linear, exponential, and quadratic functions. Preliminary results suggest that some variables like GDP, capital formation, and savings exhibited high growth and acceleration over this period, while others like gold prices and interest rates saw slower or decelerating growth. The analysis aims to better understand the direction and nature of the relationship between the Sensex
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Economic indicators and stock market performance an empirical case of indiaIAEME Publication
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The document summarizes William Beaver's perspectives on major areas of capital markets research over the past ten years. It discusses five key areas: market efficiency, Feltham-Ohlson modeling, value relevance, analysts' behavior, and discretionary behavior. Regarding market efficiency, it notes that recent studies have found evidence of market inefficiency in areas like post-earnings announcement drift and market-to-book ratios. It also discusses links between market efficiency and analysts' behavior in processing accounting information.
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A Critical Review Of The Market Efficiency Concept
1. Volume 5, No. 2, May–August 2020 ISSN: 2503-4235 (p); 2503-4243 (e)
Shirkah
Journal of Economics and Business
2. Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business
Volume 5, No. 2, May-August 2020
ISSN: 2503-4235 (p); 2503-4243 (e)
Table of Contents
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and Education of Family Manager Matter?
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146
Indonesian Consumers’ Intention of Adopting Islamic
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Mariya Waharini
171
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Institutions
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197
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228
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Donating Behaviors
A’rasy Fahrullah, Moch. Khoirul Anwar, Ahmad Ajib Ridlwan,
Prayudi Setiawan Prabowo, Ach. Yasin
250
A Critical Review of the Market Efficiency Concept
Karwan Hussein Mustafa, Amanj Mohamed Ahmed
271
3. A Critical Review of the Market Efficiency Concept
Karwan Hussein Mustafa
Department of Accounting, Komar University of Science and Technology, Iraq
karwan.mustafa@komar.edu.iq
Amanj Mohamed Ahmed
Darbandikhan Technical Institute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Iraq
amanj.mohamed@spu.edu.iq
Abstract
The market efficiency hypothesis has attracted a notable number of economists to
conduct investigations in this field. It could be considered as an effective method
of driving investors towards the right direction while trading in the security
market. A large number of researches believe that the market is efficient in some
of its forms, while others take a different view. Drawing on previous theoretical
and empirical studies investigating market efficiency and its three forms, this
paper critically examines the concept of market efficiency through a critical
review from different points of views. Moreover, it highlights a number of
empirical tests and their results with regard to the three forms of market
efficiency. It also focuses on the influence of market efficiency on the security
prices. This paper concludes that the market seems to be more efficient in regards
to its weak form instead of the strong and semi- strong forms, as a result, it is
difficult to predict future security prices and obtain abnormal profits by only
analyzing historical records.
Keywords: Critical Review; Market Efficiency; Security Prices
Shirkah
Journal of Economics and Business
ISSN: 2503-4235 (p); 2503-4243 (e)
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Introduction
Over the last few decades, market efficiency has become one
of the most controversial issues in stock markets worldwide. This
could be due to the significant effect that it has on security prices.
According to Jarrow and Larsson (2012, p. 27), “market efficiency
has been a topic discussed and tested in the financial economics
literature for over four decades”. In the 1970s, several economists
considered the market to be entirely efficient. Malkiel and Fama
(1970) stated that market was permanently efficient in that the exact
prices reflected the available information. However, due to several
anomalies which occurred in the stock market, many arguments and
contradictory opinions have been put forward by researchers who
suggested that the concept of market efficiency conflicted with
various studies (Ito et al., 2016; Rahman et al., 2016; Rösch et al.,
2017). As Shiller (2003) states, several anomalies have appeared in
the last few decades in the stock markets of various countries,
showing the inefficiency of the market.
In addition, as a result of the enormous rise in the number of
the traders in the security market, the debates regarding the market
efficiency hypothesis (EMH) have become wider. According to
Malkiel and Fama (1970), three forms of the market efficiency
concept exist, namely the weak form, the semi-strong form, and the
strong form. Each form reflects the stock prices depending on
certain information such as historical statements and general and
private information (Syed & Bajwa, 2018). Furthermore, it can be
said that a variety of experiments and empirical tests have been
carried out by researchers in order to test the efficiency that exists in
the developed and emerging stock markets. Consequently, a
number of results have been obtained. This paper will attempt to
critically display and argue the concept of market efficiency by
reviewing this concept from different points of views, and focusing
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on a number of empirical tests that have been done by different
economists with regard to the three forms. This will be conducted
by providing several data from the various studies such as the name
and place of the markets involved, the period of the test, the type of
tests that have been applied, and the results of this work.
The Concept of Market Efficiency
Several researchers have defined the concept of market
efficiency in terms of various factors. There is an essential definition
that reflects the common belief that considers the market as being
totally efficient before the occurrence of recent anomalies
(Angelovska, 2018; Ghazani & Ebrahimi, 2019; Kharbanda & Singh,
2018). As defined by Malkiel and Fama (1970), market efficiency
means that the market is entirely efficient and that the present
security prices are fully reflected in terms of the available
information that exists with regard to historical stock prices, and
from public or confidential information. Therefore, it can be seen
from Malkiel and Fama’s definition that the stock market might be
unbeatable. In addition, investors do not have the ability to obtain
unusually high profits (Hirano et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2020).
Furthermore, Malkiel (2003) and Singer (2018) emphasize that
traders are unable to obtain high profits by stating that the investors
cannot gain abnormal profits without facing a high degree of risk.
Thus, it is clear that in order for investors to obtain above-rate
profits, they have to accept a high degree of challenge. Another
point of view with regard to the concept of market efficiency can be
seen in Arnold (2012) as he implies that it is not sufficient to consider
previous information when it comes to predicting future prices of
stocks. In addition, the statements delivered by investors might
influence share values on a particular day (Verheyden et al., 2016).
However, even with a majority believing in the high efficiency of
the market, a number of anomalies have occurred in the stock
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market. In addition, there are still some possibilities and events that
might have an essential effect on the efficiency of the market.
The Forms of Market Efficiency and the Empirical Tests
The Weak Form
Referring to the forms of market efficiency, three forms have
been suggested by Malkiel and Fama (1970), i.e. the weak form,
semi-strong, and strong form. First, the weak form indicates that the
prices of stocks in the market reflect the previous records and past
and historical information. Similarly, Brealey et al. (2020) stress that
the first form might be due to the possibility of determining the
stock price from the data with regard to the historical prices. There
are many arguments about market efficiency in the weak form. A
large number of empirical tests have been conducted by various
economists in different periods and in several countries, in order to
test this form and to discover whether the market is efficient or
inefficient. Different kinds of tests have been used such as the runs
test, auto-correlation function tests and serial correlation coefficients
tests, and various results have been obtained for each test. Recently,
one of these empirical tests aimed at verifying market efficiency in
the weak form was a test that was carried out by Nwachukwu and
Shitta (2015) and Rabbani et al. (2013) in Pakistan.
These researchers examined the EMH weak form on the
market for emerging stock in the Karachi Stock Exchange. They took
data for twelve years between January, 1999 and December, 2010
from the KSE 100 benchmark, divided into four three-year periods.
They used four different tests in order to analyze the information.
These tests were the auto-correlation function, the augmented
Dickey-Fuller test, the runs test and the Phillip Perron test. The
findings were that each of these tests rejected the efficiency of the
market in the weak form with the exception of the runs test, which
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indicated the efficiency of the stock market in the weak form for two
periods of time, from 1999 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2007.
Thus, according to the results, the stock market in Pakistan is
overall inefficient with regard to the weak form, and compensation
is provided for traders in terms of facing increased risk.
Furthermore, Gupta and Basu (2007) and Poshakwale (1996)
emphasized that the market in the weak form is not efficient and,
despite of the fact that barriers have been removed and reforms have
been introduced with regard to investments, the market is still
inefficient. This view was resulted from his experimental test on the
Bombay Stock Exchange that was done using data from 1987 to 1994,
and applying the runs test and the serial correlation coefficients test,
both of which rejected the concept of weak market efficiency. In
addition, he found obvious evidence of differences in the average
profits on every single day of the week.
In contrast, it could be noticed from other several beliefs on the
part of a number of economists, that markets in this form are likely
to be efficient. As Brealey and Richard (2016) state, the market in the
weak form tends to be efficient which might be as a result of the
impossibility for investors estimating the future price of a security
by basing it on historical statements. Therefore, none of the traders
will be able to have the opportunity to earn abnormal profits. Thus,
one of the essential reasons behind considering the efficiency of the
market is that past values do not affect future prices.
This view is also emphasized by Malafeyev et al. (2017) when
they point out that “markets have no memory”. By this, they suggest
that future stock prices might take various paths in terms of what
they were previously. In addition, historical information does not
have any impact on future values. Consequently, traders are unable
to obtain any information with regard to future prices based on the
sequence of historical prices. Also, current security prices that
already reflect past records or information cannot affect or be
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reflected again in future prices. An important support for this form
is the “random walk” literature as explained by Malkiel and Fama
(1970). This implies that present or past news, no matter whether it
is positive or negative, is not associated with future news. Barnes
(2016) states that investors will have the opportunity to obtain a very
high rate of profit without any effort if they could predict
tomorrow’s prices through concentrating on and looking at the
movement of past prices. However, this kind of effortless earning
cannot be permanent.
According to Malkiel and Fama (1970), a large number of weak
form empirical tests have been undertaken in order to determine the
efficiency of the market, and the results of the majority of these tests
were extremely positive in their support. The following is an
empirical weak form test that was utilized by Rosenthal (1983)
according to information he took from markets in developed
countries. He tested the efficiency in terms of foreign shares that
were traded in the USA in the form of American Depository
Receipts (ADR). This test was done by taking information from the
period between 1974 and 1978. In addition, a run test and a serial
correlation test were used. He tested the efficiency of the weak form
of the listed and NASDAQ traded ADR sample. The point is that
both tests were harmonious in terms of the efficiency of the weak
form.
The Semi-strong Form
The second form is known as the semi-strong form. This form
reflects the prices of securities by utilizing in addition to past
information, the available public information with regard to the
firms involved which is accessible to public investors. Such as new
security issues in the market, public announcements related to
stocks, the decisions that might affect the security values and annual
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financial statements (Malkiel and Fama, 1970). It can be said that the
market in the semi-strong form could be efficient.
According to Arnold (2012), using and analyzing the overt
information on the part of traders for forecasting future prices
would not be useful. As a result, the reflection with regard to public
information has already happened in terms of the current stock
prices, and this public information has already been realized by the
majority of investors. Similarly, Pilbeam (2010) implies that it is not
possible for traders to analyze the available information in a firm’s
report in order to obtain abnormal returns in the future because, as
soon as this positive or negative information is published, the
market prices will be modified based on such information.
Therefore, investors will not be able to forecast future prices
by analyzing the current available data. The efficiency of the market
has also been emphasized by Chun and Kim (2004) by supporting
the random walk model and implying that, despite the fact that
certain anomalies have occurred, for example “Calendar Effects”,
nevertheless, the means that have been used to predict future prices
have been totally worthless in terms of beating the theory of random
walk. Also, the EMH prevents the possibility of predictions in the
market. To be more precise, in order to determine the efficiency of
the market as it is, the exact current value could be considered as the
best forecast for the level of value in market for the coming time
period.
Groenewold and Kang (1993) tested the semi-strong form of
the EMH by analyzing data from the Australian stock market for
1980. They based their empirical test on the benchmark of aggregate
stock price by collecting monthly data from the Australian security
market and utilizing macroeconomic data for the test. The result
generally supports the efficiency of the market in the semi-strong
form for the Australian share market. However, it should be taken
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into account that the period of this empirical test was before the
several bubbles that subsequently occurred.
Furthermore, it can be argued that from several other points of
view, the level of the market in its semi-strong form might not be
efficient. In addition, it does not make sense while considering the
financial circumstances at the current time. According to Shiller
2003), although investors should not be able to acquire extreme
profits in the semi-strong model, several traders were able to earn
abnormal returns. This could be as a result of irrational behavior on
the part of a number of security owners, which caused some bubbles
in the market that enabled some traders to obtain high profits in the
stock market.
The real estate bubbles that were mentioned by Sornette and
Woodard (2009) for example are one of certain common bubbles that
have happened recently and have had an influence on the present
financial circumstance in the stock market worldwide. In addition,
it had a significant role to play behind the mortgage crisis in 2008.
This happened in the USA in particular, and in several other
countries in general. The investor’s conduct may have an important
impact on these kinds of bubbles. As Shiller (2003) mentions, market
efficiency could have a role in making investors misunderstand the
phenomenon. Because of this, public announcements may not be
analyzed immediately by investors in order to reflect the values at
the same period and on the same day.
In addition, the market might not be affected promptly by the
news. This might be as a result of the irrationality on the part of
some investors. Such irrational behavior is a kind of “behavioral
finance” which has a significant effect on market efficiency, and
could cause several bubbles, due to the fact that several investors
who own shares in the market might show irrational behavior such
as a lack of confidence or overconfidence, while observing an
announcement and analyzing the announcements slowly.
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This happens due to of a lack of experience on the part of these
traders in dealing with their own securities (Shiller, 2003). Thus, this
could offer the rational investor the chance to earn abnormal
returns. As emphasized in Shiller (2003), by stating that several
exceptions might be seen in terms of the market efficiency concept,
which could be caused by certain conduct on the part of some
irrational traders that is known as behavioral finance such as an
overreaction or an under reaction to a public announcement or
company news.
The Strong Form
The third form of the market efficiency concept is the strong
form. According to Pilbeam (2010), this form relies on the fact that
security prices are considered by using the past or historical
information and public announcements as indicated the semi-strong
form. In addition, confidential or private information that has not
been announced yet to the public, and could only be realized by
company insiders such as senior managers or some other users. In
other words, the complete information reflects on the current stock
price in the market. As Bodie and Kane et al. (2011) suggest, certain
company officers could obtain high profits by accessing related
information and trading on it before the public investors have access
to this information. There is a controversial debate with regard to
the efficiency of this form.
Potocki and Swist (2012) state that the strong form could be
more complex to verify than the other two EMH forms, as it needs
non-public data to be used in this form. Moreover, Arnold (2012)
claimed that even those people who might be able to obtain
important data inside the company in the strong form, will not be
able to predict future share prices and gain above-normal profits.
Moreover, in order to verify the existence of strong market
efficiency, an empirical test has been utilized by Potocki and Swist
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(2012). They based their test on the supposition that
recommendations are issued by organizations that have access to
certain data that are unavailable to groups of traders.
The sample used in their study consisted of 3,270
recommendations which were produced by 63 financial entities for
the period between 1-January, 2005 and 31 March, 2010 in the
Warsaw Stock Exchange. From this there were indications with
regard to the firms involved that consisted of a total of 20
benchmarks. The results obtained from their tests suggest that the
total 20 index stocks that were listed in the Warsaw Stock Exchange
are distinguished by efficiency in the strong form.
However, Brealey et al. (2020) states that many researchers
believe that markets in the strong form are very likely to be
inefficient. This is due to the fact that there are a certain number of
people, such as the managers or insiders, who might be able to
access the private information of the company, and this is not
available to everyone. Consequently, only those certain people
would be aware of this private information before the general
public, and then they might be able to obtain high profits. As
Pilbeam (2010) states, by considering a number of insiders who have
access to specific information that is not available to the general
public, it can be seen that a significant profit can be made by them
when trading in the market.
Furthermore, Rahman et al. (2016) implies that when a
company intends to issue new statements, for example, with regard
to the merging of two firms or any other action that might affect
security prices, the senior managers or some insiders will be the first
to obtain this information before public investors do and even
before this information has been announced. Moreover, they will
predict the movement of future share prices by analyzing this
information. Thus, this might create a kind of lack in confidence on
the part of traders, because they will start to feel that the insider is
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obtaining a profit more than they are. Eventually this will lead the
normal investors losing their confidence in the stock market which
could cause a suffering in community. However, it should be
noticed that some efforts have been made in certain countries to
prevent and prohibit insiders and managers from trading in the
stock market. For instance, some procedures were put into place by
the UK authorities in the past to avoid this lack of confidence. As
noted by Arnold (2012), in 1980, insider dealing in the UK was
considered to be a criminal offence.
Thus, this action in the UK contributed substantially to a
revival in confidence on the part public investors in the market. As
a result, the UK prevented any type of insider dealing, whether it
involved investors utilizing confidential information for their own
benefit, or for giving advice to another person in order to trade in
the shares or securities. Similarly, as Bodie et al. (2011) state, the
Securities and Exchange Commission tries to focus its activities on
the prevention of insiders exploiting their ability to earn high
profits. Thus, it could be said that all these efforts aimed at limiting
insider dealing might be useful in order to make the market more
efficient.
A Critical Review of Efficiency Market Hypothesis
The existence of EMH today is being questioned in explaining
the phenomena of capital market, specifically in explaining how the
price of financial asset is determined. Based on the several
assumptions and previous findings mentioned in this study, we
support the view of market efficiency in its weak form, and believe
that trading within this form is more likely to be efficient than the
other forms. We strongly agree with Malafeyev et al. (2017) that
“markets have no memory” and emphasizing on the point that
future security prices would probably take different paths in terms
of what they were previously. In addition, we have seen that it is
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vital to support the literature of “random walk” by Malafeyev et al.
(2017) which emphasize on that the present or past news is not
related with future news. Moreover, the investors are not able to
obtain abnormal high profits unless facing a high degree of risk.
However, in terms of the semi- strong from, and after the
occurrence of recent anomalies, we believe that the market is most
likely to be inefficient. The main reason of this is due to “behavioral
finance” as the irrational behavior of some investors could
significantly affect the stock price in the market and led the rational
investors to earn abnormal returns. Similarly, as long as the insider
trading has not been limited or prevented in several countries, and
some investors are still able to access private information, we
believe that the market is far from being efficient in its strong form.
Conclusion
In conclusion, this paper has reviewed the concept of market
efficiency in terms of different aspects, by critically addressing
various beliefs on the part of economists. It has also discussed
critically the three forms of Efficient Market Hypotheses and
indicated that each one of these three forms reflects the share price
according to certain information, such as historical information and
public and non-public information. In addition, it can be seen from
the majority of beliefs of various researchers, that it is too difficult
to make a judgment regarding to the efficiency of the market in each
of its form, regarding the possibility of investors predicting future
stock prices in order to obtain abnormal profits.
This could be as a result of the variations in the information
available that reflects on and affects stock market prices.
Furthermore, we have shown the results of a number of previous
and recent empirical tests which have been undertaken by several
researchers in different countries, in order to verify the efficiency of
the security market in each form. Finally, it can be argued that,
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according to some empirical tests that have been mentioned in this
paper and, in general, the beliefs of a number of economists that the
market in its weak form is more likely to be efficient than the semi-
strong and strong forms, due to the impossibility of traders using
and analyzing past records in order to predict future security prices
and obtain above-normal profits. In addition, share values reflect a
fair price.
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