Testing the random walk hypothesis of stock indexes through variance-ratio

The Random Walk is considered to be a tool trying to explain the characteristic of movement of prices in the financial markets. It can also be seen in the form of a trial to demonstrate the non-predictability of future changes in the financial markets through reliance on the characteristics identified based on past price changes. In this paper used is the variance-ratio test initiated by Lo and MacKinlay to test the Random Walk Hypothesis for a more recent data of eleven Stock Indexes, seen as main indexes of the current market