Deregulation and liberalization of the Chinese stock market and the improvement of market efficiency

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 843-857

  Hung, Jui Cheng ^a  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese stock markets; Deregulation; Efficient market hypothesis; Variance ratio test

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649771478     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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