The Research for Mainland China''s Futures Market - The Efficiency Test for the Argriculture Futures of China Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange

• Main Authors: Hsiao, Meichi, 蕭媚綺
• Other Authors: Chu, Haumin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1994
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58853951872263439301

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國際貿易學系 === 82 === It is now widely accepted that financial price series are generally not stationary and consequently, conventional statisti- cal procedures like F-statistic and t-statistic are no longer appropriate for testing market efficiency and estimation. Since nonstationary variables have infinite variance that make the F- test or t-test invalid, the standard hypothesis testing does not apply to time series with unit roots. This article adopts Engle and Granger''s (1987) two-stage estimation. Firstly, apply augu- mented Dickey & Fuller unit root test (1981) to the argricultur markets are with unit roots which means both time series variables are nonstationary. Secondly, apply Engle & Granger''s (1987) Cointegration Test to test whether the cointegration relationship, including wheat, corn and soybean futures market, between CZCE and CBOT exists or not, the former one is established on May 28th, 1993 in Mainland China and the latter one is established since 1865 in the United States. The result is the wheat, corn and soybean futures prices in these two markets are not cointegrated which implys by now these two markets have no longterm equilibrium relationship, also implys CZCE and CBOT are segmented, not cointegrated. On the contrary, applying Engle & Granger''s (1987) Cointegration Tests to test the different argriculture futures market in CZCE, cointegration can not be rejected. That implys one argriculture futures price can be predicted by other argriculture futures price and the market efficiency hypothesis is rejected. Therefore this article has the following conclusion : the empirical results by now presented the rejection of the market efficiency hypothesis for three argriculture products -- wheat, corn, and soybean -- traded on China Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange.