Time varying market efficiency of the GCC stock markets

Lanouar Charfeddine and Karim Ben Khediri

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 444, issue C, 487-504

Abstract: This paper investigates the time-varying levels of weak-form market efficiency for the GCC stock markets over the period spanning from May 2005 to September 2013. We use two empirical approaches: (1) the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity in mean (GARCH-M) model with state space time varying parameter (Kalman filter), and (2) a rolling technique sample test of the fractional long memory parameter d. As long memory estimation methods, we use the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) technique, the modified R/S statistic, the exact local whittle (ELW) and the feasible Exact Local Whittle (FELW) methods. Moreover, we use the Bai and Perron (1998, 2003) multiple structural breaks technique to test and date the time varying behavior of stock market efficiency. Empirical results show that GCC markets have different degrees of time-varying efficiency, and also have experiencing periods of efficiency improvement. Results also show evidence of structural breaks in all GCC markets. Moreover, we observe that the recent financial shocks such as Arab spring and subprime crises have a significant impact on the time path evolution of market efficiency.

Keywords: Stock markets efficiency; GCC economies; GARCH-M; Kalman filter; Long memory; Structural break (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.09.063

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