Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Sep, 1971, Volume 39, Issue 5

Random Walk of Stock Prices: A Test of the Variance-Time Function

https://doi.org/0012-9682(197109)39:5<797:RWOSPA>2.0.CO;2-T
p. 797-812

William E. Young

The relationship between the time interval over which changes in a random variable are measured, and the variances of the changes for various intervals are examined with a view toward testing the independence of stock price changes. A statistical test is presented and subsequent analysis of changes for 1, 2,..., 12 month intervals suggests that prices do exhibit nonrandom behavior and in such cases the propensity is toward price reversals


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