The authors would like to thank Hank Bessembinder, Dan Himarios, Dennis Hoffman, Mike Melvin, and two anonymous referees for the helpful comments. Any remaining errors must be attributed, solely, to the authors.
Futures market efficiency: Evidence from cointegration tests
โ Scribed by Abdur R. Chowdhury
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 934 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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โฆ Synopsis
The author would like to thank the Editor of The Journal of Futures Markets and two anonymous referees for numerous suggestions on a previous draft of this paper. All remaining errors, however, are the author's responsibility. Financial assistance, provided through a Summer Grant from the Miles Fund, is gratefully acknowledged.
'Hakkio and Rush (1989) employ a similar test of market efficiency in the foreign exchange market.
'See Ma and Hein (1990) for more details on this issue.
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