TY - GEN AU - ANSARI, MOHAMMAD AU - CHEN, JENG-HONG TI - Are Asia pacific stock markets efficient?: An empirical investigation PY - 2013/// KW - STOCK MARKET N2 - The main objective of this paper is to investigate the behavior of stock returns in ten major Asia Pacific countries, namely, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. We employ a battery of techniques to test the weak form market efficiency, commonly refereed to as the random walk hypothesis ER -