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BVMAC: Do Stale Prices Understate Risk When Trading Resumes?

Does an older last-trade price indicate additional risk when BVMAC trading resumes? This study separates the effect of price staleness from the normal accumulation of risk over time.

RicherFin Research/01 Sep 2026/2 pages/CameroonReport access →
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What the study examines

This study examines whether price staleness, measured as time since the last trade, contains additional information about return risk at the next trade. The empirical design separates a stale-price effect from the normal accumulation of risk over time.

stale pricesmarket microstructureBVMAC

Scope & method

Scope

Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Equatorial Guinea · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · BVMAC

05 Jun 2025 – 17 Aug 2026

Approach

Market Microstructure

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Reading

A focused question

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