An investigation into the Efficient Market Hypothesis: a canonical correlation analysis approach
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Abstract
In this thesis we will consider the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). Fama (1970) defined three levels in which to test market efficiency: weak, semi-strong, and strong, each level depending on the particular set of information being used to assess efficiency. We will mainly address weak level efficiency in which the information set is past security data. Before the mid 1980's it was widely believed that the E M H was true at the weak and semi-strong levels. It was not until the pioneering work of Shiller (1984) and Summers (1986) that some doubt was cast on the E M H . They proposed an inefficient model in which prices consist of a sum of a random walk component and a stationary (predictable) component which represents the market valuation error. Since their initial conjecture about a stationary component in stock prices much effort has been spent in trying to determine if it exists and if it does, determining how much of the variations in stock prices it accounts for. To investigate this problem we will use a combination of data filtering, canonical correlation analysis, simulations and bootstrapping. Using industry price data obtained from the Toronto Stock Exchange over the period January 1956 to June 1995, we find some evidence against the EMH.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.025 | 0.117 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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