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Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Specialized Literature and Methodology on Nigerian Stock Market

Publication date: 30.06.2022

Financial Law Review, 2022, Issue 26 (2)/2022, pp. 47 - 62

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996834FLR.22.016.16323

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John Ayodele Ajayi
Department of Finance, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos-Akoka, Nigeria
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Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Specialized Literature and Methodology on Nigerian Stock Market

Abstract

The efficiency of securities market has generated a lot of controversy over four decades in finance and economic discussions leading to some people accepting or rejecting the efficient market hypothesis. Hence this paper examines the growing body of empirical research on efficient market hypothesis on the Nigerian capital market for the past twelve years (2010-2021). The paper particularly surveys empirical research and specialized literature as it relates to the Nigerian capital market. The paper is purely empirical research that have been published in various academic journals on the Nigerian capital market. Findings from the empirical research show that there has been no consensus on the efficiency of the Nigerian capital market. However, the market seems to be efficient in the weak-form. The conclusion of this paper is that there are inherent difficulties in testing for market efficiency in developing countries capital market due to certain market imperfections that could affect the informational efficiency of the market.

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Information: Financial Law Review, 2022, Issue 26 (2)/2022, pp. 47 - 62

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0227-5994

John Ayodele Ajayi
Department of Finance, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos-Akoka, Nigeria
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0227-5994 Orcid
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Department of Finance, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos-Akoka, Nigeria

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