The impact of SARS on the stock markets of Canada, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, is examined. The leading stock indices of these countries during the SARS outbreak are compared with a non-SARS period and also...

This article investigates Day-of-the-Week and January Effects in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets over the period 1990 to 2006 for both the 'A' and 'B' indices. During this period, these two Chinese stock markets went through the limit period and nonlimit period and then again through a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the day-of-the-week effect for three primary money market instruments in Canada. The sample period is 1980-2009. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use three approaches. First, a parametric t-test is employed to determine if a...

This article extends the empirical literature on the efficiency of stock markets in the US by applying a battery of unit root tests to empirically ascertain whether stock prices are mean reverting. This article, unlike previous studies, employs a disaggregated approach using the daily closing...

The chain of events that led to the disagreement between the White House and Congrees over the increase of the federal debt limit from mid-October 1995 to March 1996 caused a default potential for Treasury securities. We examine the effect of this event chain on the yield spread between...