The persistence in time of the calendar anomalies is one of the most disputed subjects from the financial literature. Quite often, the passing from quiet to turbulent periods of time provokes radical changes in the investors’ behaviors which affect the stock markets seasonality. In this paper...

The text touches on the subject of the financial markets in the context of behavioral theories. The author attempts to verify the occurrence of one of the popular calendar effects, the day-of-the-week effect, on the Polish stock market. Another limitati on of the study area of the research is to...

This paper studies recurring annual events potentially introducing seasonality into gold prices. We analyze gold returns for each month from 1980 to 2010 and find that September and November are the only months with positive and statistically significant gold price changes. This “autumn...

The text touches on the subject of the financial markets in the context of behavioral theories. The author attempts to verify the occurrence of one of the popular calendar effects, the day-of-the-week effect, on the Polish stock market. Another limitati on of the study area of the research is to...

This study evaluates one of the most important emerging markets, India, for its efficiency and for its potential to offer diversification benefits to international investors. Two of the markets in India are analyzed (Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and Indian National Exchange (INE)) for their...

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...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the occurrence of the so called day of the week effects in market return time series from the period of January 2003 to September 2013 (and additionally January 1999 to December 2002). The study focuses on four indices of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WIG, WIG20,...

This study aims to investigate the day-of-the-week (DoW) effect of cross-market leveraged exchange-traded funds (LETFs) in the Taiwanese stock market. We find that Wednesday’s overnight returns are significantly positive for bull 2X LETFs tracking major stock indices of the Chinese market,...

This paper examines the well know day of the week effect on stock returns. Various approaches have been developed and applied in order to examine calendar effects in stock returns and to formulate appropriate financial and risk portfolios. We propose an alternative approach in the estimation of...

Empirical studies on market returns are carried out to try to better understand the various markets. An interesting and not fully explained finding is that mean returns differ across the day of-the-week. The most commonly found patterns in developed markets and some developing markets are the...