Tsagkanos, Athanasios; Zachouris, Paris - In: American Journal of Finance and Accounting 3 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 152-171
The Halloween effect refers to a calendar anomaly that can be easily exploited and calls for buying the market index in the end of October each year and switching to treasury bills at the end of April the following year. The effect has only been studied on a 'calendar-month' basis and primarily...