Tests of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
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https://doi.org/10.17713/ajs.v26i1.541Abstract
This paper surveys various statistical methods that have been proposed for the examination of the efficiency of financial markets and proposes a novel procedure for testing the predictability of a time series. For illustration, this procedure is applied to Austrian stock return series.References
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