Market Efficiency for the Pakistan Stock Market: Evidence from the Karachi Stock Exchange

South Asia Economic Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-81

  Chakraborty, Madhumita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

ARMA Modelling; Efficient market hypothesis; random walk hypothesis; variance ratio test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993729229     PISSN: 13915614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/139156140500700104     Document Type: Article

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