Fractal Market Hypothesis: The Emergent Financial Markets Case

Flavia Barna (), Ştefana Maria Dima (), Bogdan Dima and Lucian Paşca ()
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Flavia Barna: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Ştefana Maria Dima: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Lucian Paşca: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

ECONOMIC COMPUTATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS STUDIES AND RESEARCH, 2016, vol. 50, issue 2, 137-150

Abstract: The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is a long-stand frame in the analysis of the financial markets behaviour. Still, recent evidences point toward the limits of such as approach. Several alternative approaches have been proposed. Among them, Fractal Market Hypothesis (FMH) might provide interesting explanations for various types of market imperfections such as ‘fat tail’ effects, stochastic volatility and self-similarity. Based on this conceptual background, the aim of this study is twofold: 1) to directly address the issue of fractal dimension estimation by discussing some estimators which are more frequently used in literature and, respectively, 2) to provide empirical evidences for the potential fractal properties from nine important emergent markets. We find that emergent markets from Europe and Asia are closer to the ‘non-persistence’ status while Latin America markets exhibits more significant signs of local persistence. However, the current financial turmoil led to some changes in the time profile of the considered markets.

Keywords: Financial markets; Fractal Market Hypothesis; fractal dimension; emergent markets. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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