 Anomalous Behaviour and Volatility in Stock Returns are still Live - Efficient Markets Hypothesis?: Perspective from Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)Rana Shahid Imdad Akash, Iqbal Mahmood and Muhammad Mudasar Ghafoor Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 381-389 Abstract: Purpose: This empirical study investigates the anomalous behaviour and volatility in stock return of PSX-100 index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX).Design/Methodology/Approach: The data is taken from January, 2006 to December, 2018 to detect variability and predictability of stock returns. ARCH and GARCH models are applied to check the volatility in stock returns using dummy variable.Findings: It is found that there exists positive and significant September effect in Pakistani equity market. The returns are high in the month of September than other months. The constant returns do not exist during the whole year so the efficient market hypothesis contradicts.Implications/Originality/Value: The Efficient Market Hypothesis is question mark due to volatility for mispricing the securities. The mispricing may have implications for undervalue or overvalue the securities and overall economic activity of equity – stock returns. Keywords: Calendar Anomaly; Volatility; PSX; ARCH-GARCH; EMH (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:src:jafeec:v:6:y:2020:i:2:p:381-389 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies from CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan Contact information at EDIRC. |
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