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Testing weak form efficiency in Damascus securities market: Acomparisation study with Amman, Muscat securities markets

اختبار الصيغة الضعيفة لكفاءة سوق دمشق للأوراق المالية دراسة مقارنة مع سوقي عمان و مسقط للأوراق المالية

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 Publication date 2017
  fields Business Management
and research's language is العربية
 Created by Shamra Editor




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This paper aims to test weak form efficiency in Damascus , Amman , Muscat securities market .It examines daily stock return index during ( 1 - 4- 2010 ) , ( 31 - 12 - 2016 ) using normal distribution test , runs test , autocorrelation test , unit root test , variance ratio test , auto regressive integrated moving average test



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( AL- PHAYOUMI , N et al 2003 , The effect of emerging markets characteristic on efficiency test : An applied study on Amman stock exchange , Dirasat , Managerial science , Vol 30 No2, 322 – 334 . ( IN ARABIC
( ALKARAAN , F 2013, The efficiency of Damascus securities exchange , Tanmiat AL-Rafdain , Vol 35 No 114 , 137 – 153 . ( IN ARABIC
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