This study examines whether the United States (US) macroeconomic news announcements affect volatilities of emerging stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region. For this purpose, the behavior of GARCH volatilities of nine major emerging markets (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan,...

This study provides a new and economically plausible explanation for turn‐of‐the‐month and intramonth anomalies. It is suggested that these anomalies arise from clustered information, namely from important macroeconomic news announcements, which are released systematically at a certain...