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Is the Malaysian Foreign Exchange Market Efficient?

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  • Omar Marashdeh

    (The University of Sydney)

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This paper examines the Malaysian foreign exchange market efficiency for the USD, Singapore dollar, pound, and yen over the 1980:1-1994:12 period by utilizing Johansen-Juselius (JJ) Maximum Likelihood procedure. The bivariate cointegration results show the absence of cointegration among the bilateral exchange rates. This is further confirmed by the multivariate cointegration results which indicate the absence of a cointegration relationship among the four exchange rates. Thus, the foreign exchange markets for the four currencies are weakly efficient. However, these results were susceptible to the sample period under consideration. The subperiod analysis shows that a cointegrating relationship existed among the four currencies during 1980:1-1985:10 period. However, this relationship disappeared during the 1985:10- 1994:12 period. Moreover, the results of the analysis remained the same after extending the sample to 1996:1. This implies that the Malaysian Foreign exchange market is weakly efficient.

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  • Omar Marashdeh, 1998. "Is the Malaysian Foreign Exchange Market Efficient?," International Finance 9801002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpif:9801002
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    Keywords

    Market efficiency foreign exchange Malaysia cointegration;

    JEL classification:

    • F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
    • C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets

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