Are OECD stock prices characterized by a random walk? Evidence from sequential trend break and panel data models

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 547-556

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Smyth, Russell ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM WALK METHOD; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 18744400503     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000314223     Document Type: Article

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