Date of Award

5-2005

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Departmental Honors

Department

Economics and Finance

Abstract

This paper finds a decreasing relationship between daytime trading in previous-day US equity markets and the Japanese market performance in the current period. On the other hand, the connection has increased between current US equity markets and current, after-hour Japanese markets. These changes have corrected a previous violation of the efficient market hypothesis, and suggest that as internet trading has increased volumes of off-hour trading, the Japanese equity markets have been better able to digest information from current US markets.

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Faculty Mentor

Tyler J. Bowles

Departmental Honors Advisor

L. Dwight Israelsen