The Changing Efficiency of the European Stock Markets

• Autorzy: Jacek Karasiński
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The purpose of this article is to examine how the weak-form efficiency of the European stock markets has changed over the years. The study focuses its attention not on answering the question if the markets were efficient but on explaining how efficiency evolved. With a process based on the random walk model proposed by Louis Bachelier in 1900 still commonly applied in this research, market efficiency was examined using three different tests of the normality of the distribution for the returns of 20 selected European stock market indexes. The tests were performed for each year and for additional two-year sub-periods during the 20-year research period (1999-2018). Moreover, the tests were run for one-, two-, three- and four-day returns' intervals. The study allowed for a partial rejection of the research hypothesis, finding that on a long-term basis the efficiency of European stock markets tends to improve. Indeed, the results indicate that overall efficiency tended to improve but only since the end of the 2008 global financial crisis. From the very beginning of the research period until 2008, overall efficiency was shown to decrease.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Equity market; Shares; Research methodology

PL

Rynek akcji; Akcje; Metodologia badań

• Czasopismo: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio H. Oeconomia
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: 54
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 41--51

Twórcy

autor

Jacek Karasiński

• University of Warsaw

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DOI

10.17951/h.2020.54.1.41-51