Run test is a method to test the Weak Form Efficiency of Capital Market.This paper compares two methodologies introducing separately by Fama(1965) and Mood (1940).Then we test the efficiency of Chinese Stock Market.It should be pointed out that part of the Stock Market in China has been a Weak Form Efficient Market from the year 1993 on.
Through the cross section analysis of the first day transnormal yields of newly issuing shares in Shanghai Stock Market,the paper tests the applicability in China of the theory of the transcendental uncertain hypothesis of rebating newly issuing shares,the credit standing hypothesis of investment banks,the signal hypothesis and the market atmosphere hypothesis respectively.
