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ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Year : 2012, Volume : 2, Issue : 5
First page : ( 40) Last page : ( 48)
Print ISSN : 0000-0000. Online ISSN : 2231-5780.

Stock market efficiency in Nepal

Dangol Jeetendra

Lecturer, Public Youth Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Abstract

The paper examines random-walk behaviour and weak-form market efficiency on daily market returns of All Share Price Index (ASPI) and Sensitive Index (SI) on the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) using Lo and MacKinlay’s (1988) variance-ratio tests and runs tests for the period between September 13, 2006 to May 13, 2010. The study finds that the random-walk hypothesis is strongly rejected for both indices. There is no evidence for weak-form efficiency in either series. It implicates that market participants have opportunities to predict future price and earn abnormal returns from the Nepalese stock market.

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Keywords

Market efficiency, Random walk hypothesis, Runs tests, Variance ratio test.

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