Brockman, Paul; Michayluk, David - In: Applied Economics Letters 5 (1998) 4, pp. 205-209
The holiday effect is one of the most perplexing of all seasonal anomalies. Based on evidence using pre-1987 equity returns, this anomaly has been shown to be responsible for somewhere between 30 to 50% of the total return on the market while exhibiting below average variances (Lakonishok and...