Huerta-Quintanilla, Rodrigo and Hasan, Md Zobaer and Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah and Mustafa, Adli and Baten, Md Azizul (2012) Stochastic frontier model approach for measuring stock market efficiency with different distributions. PLoS ONE, 7 (5). e37047. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

The stock market is considered essential for economic growth and expected to contribute to improved productivity. An efficient pricing mechanism of the stock market can be a driving force for channeling savings into profitable investments and thus facilitating optimal allocation of capital. This study investigated the technical efficiency of selected groups of companies of Bangladesh Stock Market that is the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) market, using the stochastic frontier production function approach. For this, the authors considered the Cobb-Douglas Stochastic frontier in which the technical inefficiency effects are defined by a model with two distributional assumptions. Truncated normal and half-normal distributions were used in the model and both time-variant and time-invariant inefficiency effects were estimated. The results reveal that technical efficiency decreased gradually over the reference period and that truncated normal distribution is preferable to half-normal distribution for technical inefficiency effects. The value of technical efficiency was high for the investment group and low for the bank group, as compared with other groups in the DSE market for both distributions in time- varying environment whereas it was high for the investment group but low for the ceramic group as compared with other groups in the DSE market for both distributions in time-invariant situation.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	School of Quantitative Sciences
Depositing User:	Prof. Madya Dr. Md. Azizul Baten
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2016 04:57
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2016 04:57
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19420

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