This study investigated the impact of Muslim Holy Days on daily stock returns of Asian financial markets for a period of 2001–2014. These markets include Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The study has tried to isolate the effect of Gregorian calendar anomalies from Muslim Holy Days...

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...

Stock market anomalies can be broadly categorized as calendar, fundamental and technical anomalies. Calendar anomalies however are among the most discussed issues in the financial literature. This is because these anomalies are the primary contributors towards the abnormalities in the stock...

Before 1975, the mean weekend rate of return on the equal-weight (value-weight) stock market portfolio is significant -18bp (-19bp). After 1975, it is insignificant -5bp (-1bp). This break date is determined by a structural break test with unknown break date. The weekend effect is no longer an...

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,...

A crowded trade emerges when speculators' positions are large relative to the asset's liquidity, making exit difficult. We study this problem of recent regulatory concern by focusing on short-selling. We show that days to cover (DTC), the ratio of short interest to trading volume, measures the...

This study examines the January anomaly at the industry level in the emerging Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). Analyses of the data from 1986 through 2007 provide evidence for the anomaly. There is also strong evidence that the anomaly has partially shifted to December of the previous year....

This paper examines the presence of the day-of-the-week effect in the Italian stock market index (MIB) sub-sectoral returns. The study, by using GARCH-M (1,1) models, did not find evidence of the day-of-the-week effect in mean equations, while some evidence was present in variance equations. The...

This study investigates the day of the week effect and the January effect on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM). Positive and statistically significant Wednesday and Friday effects are observed. Surprisingly we also find a positive and significant Monday effect but smaller in magnitude. The...

This paper focuses on three important calendar events namely day of the week, turn of the month and January effect. Using both a GARCH (1 1)-M model and a mixture of distribution hypothesis (MDH) this paper investigates the return and conditional volatility pattern of the Malaysian stock index...