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| Title: | | How efficient is the U.K. housing market?  |
| Authors: | | Schindler, Felix |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 10-030 |
| Abstract: | | Extending the controversial findings from the relevant literature, the results from the quarterly transaction-based Nationwide indices from 1974 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the weak-form version of efficiency in the U.K. housing market. In addition to conducting parametric and non-parametric tests, we apply technical trading strategies to test whether or not the inefficiencies can be exploited by investors earning excess returns. The empirical findings from the technical trading strategies support the results from the statistical tests and suggest that investors might be able to obtain excess returns from both autocorrelation- and moving average-based strategies compared to a buy-and-hold strategy for 10 out of 14 markets. |
| Subjects: | | Housing market weak-form market efficiency random walk hypothesis variance ratio tests runs test trading strategies |
| JEL: | | G12 G14 G15 R31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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