EFFICIENCY OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN SECURITIES EXCHANGE

Kirwins Charles, Bruce Niendorf and Kristine Beck

Global Journal of Business Research, 2013, vol. 7, issue 5, 15-23

Abstract: This study examines the weak-form efficiency of the Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange, which opened on October 19, 2001, by conducting tests for the day-of-the-week effect on the individual stocks listed on the Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange. Weak-form efficiency means that current security prices reflect all past public information including past prices, rates of return, and trading volume data. Given the enormous amounts being invested in emerging markets, those countries that can maintain efficient markets may attract billions of dollars of capital to the businesses in their countries. This paper is the first to test firms listed on the Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange for weak-form efficiency. The results of evaluating Monday returns, Friday returns and other day of the week returns are consistent with weak-form efficiency, while the results of runs tests find some evidence of weak-form inefficiency in the securities trading on the Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange.

Keywords: Market Efficiency; ECSE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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