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Finanças. November 9. Topics covered. Efficient market theory Definition Implications Foundation Types Evidence. Efficient market theory. Efficient market: Implications of the efficient market theory:. Reaction of Stock Price to New Information in Efficient and Inefficient Markets.
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Finanças November 9 QDai for FEUNL
Topics covered • Efficient market theory • Definition • Implications • Foundation • Types • Evidence QDai for FEUNL
Efficient market theory • Efficient market: • Implications of the efficient market theory: QDai for FEUNL
Reaction of Stock Price to New Information in Efficient and Inefficient Markets Stock Price Efficient market response to “good news” -30 -20 -10 0 +10 +20 +30 Days before (-) and after (+) announcement QDai for FEUNL
Reaction of Stock Price to New Information in Efficient and Inefficient Markets Efficient market response to “bad news” Stock Price -30 -20 -10 0 +10 +20 +30 Days before (-) and after (+) announcement QDai for FEUNL
Foundations of market efficiency • Rationality: • Independent deviations from rationality: • Arbitrage QDai for FEUNL
Different types of efficiency • Weak form: • Semistrong form: • Strong form: QDai for FEUNL
Weak Form Market Efficiency • Security prices reflect • Pt = • Since stock prices only respond to new information, which by definition arrives randomly, stock prices are said to follow QDai for FEUNL
Semi-Strong Form of Market Efficiency • Semi-strong form: • Historical price and volume information QDai for FEUNL
Strong Form of Market Efficiency • Strong form: • Incorporates weak and semi-strong form efficiency. • Anything pertinent to the stock and known to at least one investor is already incorporated into the security’s price. QDai for FEUNL
The Evidence for market efficiency • Are changes in stock prices random? Are there profitable “trading rules”? • Event studies: does the market quickly and accurately respond to new information? • The record of professionally managed investment firms. • Insider trading QDai for FEUNL
Are Changes in Stock Prices Random? • Random stock price changes support • Serial correlation: QDai for FEUNL
What Pattern Do You See? QDai for FEUNL
Are Changes in Stock Prices Random? • The serial correlation coefficients for firms have been found to be • The evidence is consistent with QDai for FEUNL
Event Studies • Event studies are one type of test of the semi-strong form of market efficiency • Examines prices and returns around the arrival of new information: under reaction, overreaction, early reaction, delayed reaction around the event… • The abnormal return of a given stock on a particular day: • AR= R–RM • AR= R– (a +bRM) • Cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) QDai for FEUNL
Event Studies: Dividend Omissions Efficient market response to “bad news” S.H. Szewczyk, G.P. Tsetsekos, and Z. Santout “Do Dividend Omissions Signal Future Earnings or Past Earnings?” Journal of Investing (Spring 1997) QDai for FEUNL
Event studies • This metholdology has been applied to a large number of corporate events • Dividend announcement • Stock repurchase • Merger and aquisition • Earnings announcement • Change in the management etc • These studies are generally supportive of QDai for FEUNL
The Record of Mutual Funds • If the market is semi-strong efficient, then mutual-fund managers should • Compare the performance of professionally managed mutual funds with the return on a market index. QDai for FEUNL
The Record of Mutual Funds Taken from Lubos Pastor and Robert F. Stambaugh, “Mutual Fund Performance and Seemingly Unrelated Assets,” Journal of Financial Exonomics, 63 (2002). QDai for FEUNL
Insider trading • Trades by insiders are found to be related to large profits. • The evidence is QDai for FEUNL
Behavial challenge to market efficiency • Investors do not behave rationally • Patterms in deviation from rationality • Arbitrage is risky QDai for FEUNL
Empirical Challengesto Market Efficiency QDai for FEUNL