Indirect Tax Reform And Market Efficiency: An Empirical Study of Indian Stock Market
Abstract
The biggest tax reform of the Indian Government in this present decade is the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which was passed in parliament on 8th September 2016 and was enforced from 1st July 2017. Eight years of data from the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex and the National Stock Exchange Nifty50 index is studied. The data is divided into two sub-periods before GST was passed from parliament period - I and after GST was passed from the parliament of India period - II. The study intends to test the market efficiency in its weak form. To check the time series data for normality, stationarity, random walk, and autocorrelation function, Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test, Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test, Phillips Perron (PP) test is used for the analyse of the time-series data. The study found that returns are not normally distributed and the market is inefficient in a weak form for both periods under study.
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