Analysis of efficiency for Shenzhen stock market: Evidence from the source of multifractality

Li Liu, Yudong Wang and Jieqiu Wan

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2010, vol. 19, issue 4, 237-241

Abstract: This paper extends the work in Wang, Liu and Gu (2009) [Analysis of efficiency for Shenzhen stock market based on multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis. International Review of Financial Analysis, 18, 271-276] by investigating the dynamics of two main sources of multifractality over time. Using multiscale detrended fluctuation analysis, we find that the medium-term and long-term auto-correlations of Shenzhen stock market became weaker and weaker over time but the degrees of short-term efficiency seemed to do not change. Evidence shows that the degree of the fat-tail distribution of the market returns abruptly decreased after the price-limited reform. After the reform, the degree of fat-tail distribution seemed to run an upward trend but it went down finally. From the contributions of two sources, we conclude that the multifractality generally displayed a downward trend indicating an upward trend of efficiency only in the medium- and long-term which further confirms the results in Wang, Liu and Gu (2009). We find that some abnormal "jumps" in the evolutions of short-term and medium-term correlation behaviors can be related to the abruptly exogenous events. Some problems about efficiency and operations of Shenzhen market are also discussed at last.

Keywords: Multiscale; analysis; Detrended; fluctuation; analysis; Shenzhen; stock; market; Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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