Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36381 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 10-030
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
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

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