We find that, due to arbitrage around index changes, investors in Samp;P 500-linked funds lose between 0.03% and 0.12% annually, while investors in Russell 2000-linked funds lose between 1.30% and 1.84%. In dollar terms, the losses range from $3.75 billion to $6 billion a year for the two...

We claim that speculative short sellers are partly responsible for the weekend effect. Concerned with their inability to trade over the weekend and in an attempt to reduce their risk exposure, short sellers close their speculative positions on Fridays and re-establish new short positions on...

We present evidence on the December effect. When investors do not sell winner stocks in December but postpone their sale to January so that capital gains will not be realized in the current fiscal year, the quot;winnersquot; appreciate in December. The December effect is relatively easy to...

We study the price effects of firms added to and deleted from the Samp;P 500 index and document an asymmetric price response: there is a permanent increase in the price of added firms but no similar decline for deleted firms. These results are at odds with extant explanations of the effects of...