Download or read book Stock Market Liberalization and Informational Efficiency in Emerging Markets written by Duc Khuong Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On testing the impact of stock market liberalization on weak form market efficiency in emerging market countries, previous studies often provide divergent results. This paper revisits this empirical literature by using a time-varying parameter model which enables us to handle the gradual effects induced by stock market liberalization on informational efficiency. The model also corrects for both the serial correlation in return structure and volatility risk premium of local markets. First, we show that while some markets tend to converge to more efficient markets in the aftermath of stock market liberalization, others moved away from efficient state. For markets which were already efficient before financial liberalization implementations, the informational efficiency appears to be more apparent in recent years. Second, although we document significant effects of stock market liberalization on efficiency after controlling for economic and political perspectives, the direction of effects remains inconclusive because empirical results tend to be country-specific. Finally, it is worth noting that conditional stock market volatility has no significant impact on the expected returns.