Indonesian Capital Market Review
Vol. 6, No. 1

The Impact of Pre-closing Implementation to Price Efficiency in Indonesia Stock Exchange

Pradityo, Gilang (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jan 2014

Abstract

Indonesia Stock Exchange has really concerned about improving stock market quality these days. One of the effort is pre-closing trading session implementation. It refers to Decision of the Board of Directors of The Indonesia Stock Exchange Number Kep-00399/BEI/11-2012, regarding Amendment to Rule Number II-A concerning Equity-Type Securities Trading. The rule is effective on 2nd Januar, 2013 and Indonesia Stock Exchange has implemented it since that date. The purposes of pre-closing implementation are to mitigate marking the close, which is the practice of buying security at the very end of the trading day at a significantly higher price than the current price of the security, and to improve market quality. This paper attempts to veryfy whether the impact of pre-closing implementation to price efficiency is positive or not. The result shows that the pre-closing implementation has the positive impact to price efficiency. It reduces the return volatility and market manipulation at the closing time which also means that the pre-closing implementation has effectively improved market quality in Indonesia Stock Exchange.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

publication:icmr

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

The intent of the Editors of The Indonesian Capital Market Review is to discuss, to explore, and to disseminate the latest issues and developments in Empirical Financial Economics particularly those related to financial frictions in the Emerging Markets. The topics cover capital markets, financial ...