“…Fourth, a pertinent issue observed in the context of emerging markets such as India is the violation of weak‐form efficiency in the stock markets. It is likely that in such markets, current stock returns are influenced by the past values (Dicle, Beyhan, & Yao, 2010; Majumder, 2012, 2013). Therefore, to verify the stability of our main findings, we introduce dynamism (past excess return) into the main specification and examine whether it alters the main results of the study, that is, the values of β 1 and β 2 .…”