The aim of this study is to determine whether the DOW effect still exists, and to evaluate empirically the explanations of the DOW effect for international equity markets. Evaluating 51 markets in 33 countries for the period between January, 2000 and December, 2007, reveals that the DOW effect...

This paper investigates calendar anomalies for three highly developed EU stock markets (Germany, France, Austria) and their recently developed EU counterparts (Portugal and Greece). Five well known calendar effects on both return and volatility are examined; the day of the week, the January, the...