THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON THE MARKET EFFICIENCY OF CAPITAL MARKETS OF SOUTH EAST EUROPE

Authors

  • ANI STOITSOVA-STOYKOVA South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,Bulgaria,
  • Vladimir Tsenkov South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,Bulgaria,

Keywords:

Efficient Market Hypothesis, financial crisis, efficiency and information asymmetry, capital markets.

Abstract

The study uses the GARCH models to estimate market efficiency of eleven stock markets from South East Europe (SEE) - Bulgaria, , Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Romania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Banja Luka and Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) over the period from 2005 to 2015 with the accent on the effect of the global financial crisis of 2008 on the market efficiency.  The results reveal that eight of eleventh of analyzed markets can be defined as market inefficient according to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) during the whole studied period. From pre-crisis to crisis period five of the SEE indices worsen their market efficiency in the terms of the weak form of the EMH. The group of indices with relatively high market efficiency during the post-crisis period is the largest one in comparison with the previous periods. All things considered, it seems reasonable to assume that SEE markets aren’t homogeneous and uniform in the contest of EMH.

Author Biographies

ANI STOITSOVA-STOYKOVA, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,Bulgaria,

Assistant professor, Faculty of Economics,

Department of “Finance and accounting” ,

South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,Bulgaria, 

 

Vladimir Tsenkov, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,Bulgaria,

PhD, Assistant professor,

Faculty of Economics

Department of “Finance and accounting”

Laboratory for econometric researches

South-West University “Neofit Rilski”,Bulgaria

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Published

2017-06-30

How to Cite

STOITSOVA-STOYKOVA, A., & Tsenkov, V. (2017). THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON THE MARKET EFFICIENCY OF CAPITAL MARKETS OF SOUTH EAST EUROPE. International Journal of Contemporary Economics and Administrative Sciences, 7(1-2), 31–56. Retrieved from http://www.ijceas.com/index.php/ijceas/article/view/146

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