This is the first study to examine the presence of calendar anomalies in American Depository Receipts (ADR) returns. Existing literature has documented several calendar anomalies in US and foreign markets. ADRs, however, represent a unique class of securities because they represent the ownership...

While seasonal effects for both advanced and emerging markets have been investigated extensively in mean and variance equations, Arab region asset markets have received much less attention. The objective of this article is to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the day-of-the-week...