In this article, we revisit the Friday the 13th effect discussed by Kolb and Rodriguez (1987) that has received increased interest in recent research. Using a dummy-augmented GARCH model, we investigate whether the occurrence of this superstitious calendar day has significant impact on the...

Dieser Beitrag illustriert mittels Monte-Carlo-Simulation die Eigenschaften des OLS- und des IV-Schätzers, wenn die erklärende Variable im einfachen linearen Regressionsmodell endogen, d. h. mit dem Störterm des Modells korreliert ist. Insbesondere werden dabei die Verzerrung des...

We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known...