Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries

This paper examines the random walk hypothesis (RWH) and the martingale difference hypothesis (MDH) for the Australian dollar and five Asian emerging currencies relative to three benchmark currencies. We use Wright’s (2000) non-parametric procedure to test the RWH and Kuan and Lee’s (2004) procedure...

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Main Author: Al-Khazali, Osamah (author)
Other Authors: Leduc, Guillaume (author), Pyun, Chong S. (author)
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dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv Alkhazali, Osamah, Guillaume Leduc, and Pyun, Chong Soo. "Market efficiency of floating exchange rate systems: Some evidence from Pacific-Asian countries." Global Finance Journal 22, no. 2 (October, 2011): 154–168. doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2011.10.005
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Efficiency of foreign exchange markets
Random walk
Martingale difference hypothesis
Emerging currency markets
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description This paper examines the random walk hypothesis (RWH) and the martingale difference hypothesis (MDH) for the Australian dollar and five Asian emerging currencies relative to three benchmark currencies. We use Wright’s (2000) non-parametric procedure to test the RWH and Kuan and Lee’s (2004) procedure to test the MDH. The results of Wright’s tests and Kuan and Lee’s test are adjusted for size distortion. The RWH is rejected for all currencies before and after the Asian crisis. The results of Kuan and Lee’s test are consistent with the fact that the RWH is more stringent than the MDH. For the three testing periods, the MDH fails to reject the AUD. For all other currencies the MDH is rejected at least for one benchmark over two periods, indicating that the market efficiency in these markets have not significantly improved under the floating rate systems following the Asian financial crisis.
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spelling Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian CountriesAl-Khazali, OsamahLeduc, GuillaumePyun, Chong S.Efficiency of foreign exchange marketsRandom walkMartingale difference hypothesisEmerging currency marketsThis paper examines the random walk hypothesis (RWH) and the martingale difference hypothesis (MDH) for the Australian dollar and five Asian emerging currencies relative to three benchmark currencies. We use Wright’s (2000) non-parametric procedure to test the RWH and Kuan and Lee’s (2004) procedure to test the MDH. The results of Wright’s tests and Kuan and Lee’s test are adjusted for size distortion. The RWH is rejected for all currencies before and after the Asian crisis. The results of Kuan and Lee’s test are consistent with the fact that the RWH is more stringent than the MDH. For the three testing periods, the MDH fails to reject the AUD. For all other currencies the MDH is rejected at least for one benchmark over two periods, indicating that the market efficiency in these markets have not significantly improved under the floating rate systems following the Asian financial crisis.Elsevier2020-06-03T08:37:20Z2020-06-03T08:37:20Z2011Peer-ReviewedPublished versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfAlkhazali, Osamah, Guillaume Leduc, and Pyun, Chong Soo. "Market efficiency of floating exchange rate systems: Some evidence from Pacific-Asian countries." Global Finance Journal 22, no. 2 (October, 2011): 154–168. doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2011.10.0051044-0283http://hdl.handle.net/11073/1667210.1016/j.gfj.2011.10.005en_UShttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2011.10.005oai:repository.aus.edu:11073/166722024-08-22T12:02:16Z
spellingShingle Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
Al-Khazali, Osamah
Efficiency of foreign exchange markets
Random walk
Martingale difference hypothesis
Emerging currency markets
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title Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
title_full Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
title_fullStr Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
title_full_unstemmed Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
title_short Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
title_sort Market Efficiency of Floating Exchange Rate Systems: Some Evidence from Pacific-Asian Countries
topic Efficiency of foreign exchange markets
Random walk
Martingale difference hypothesis
Emerging currency markets
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16672