Purpose - This paper aims to explore the influence of the COVID-19 outbreak and the Government’s disease control measures on the stock returns and liquidity of Vietnam-listed companies in the financial services sector. Design/methodology/approach - The authors have conducted a panel data...

Given the effects COVID-19 pandemic on the financial sectors across the world, this study examined the reaction of stock returns of 201 firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown policy. We deployed both Pooled OLS and Panel VAR as estimation methods....

This research intends to explore the presence of the "turn-of-the-month-effect (TOME)" in the Pakistani stock market. The TOME is the temporary increase in prices of registered shares on the last operating day of the month and the initial 3-4 days of the following month. The selection...

Some calendar anomalies are not persistent in time. They experience various changes, including the modifications on their specific time intervals. This paper approaches the persistence in time of the abnormal returns of stock returns from United States capital market during the...

Semi-monthly effect is a kind of calendar anomalies which is less explored in the financial literature. The main objective of this paper to investigate the presence of semimonthly effect in selected sectoral indices of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The study uses the daily stock returns of five...

We find the well-documented U-shaped intraday patterns of stock liquidity, volume, and price volatility for the U.S. stock market have disappeared. Bid-ask spreads tend to decrease, not increase, toward the close of the trading day; trading volume disproportionally concentrates in the last five...

The Turn-of-the-quarter (TOQ) Effect is a calendar anomaly consisting in abnormal returns occurring in a specific time interval, that starts in the mth last trading day of a quarter (BQ-m) and ends in the nth last trading day of a quarter (BQ+n). As many other anomalies, the TOQ Effect is not...

The interaction among futures and spot markets has been one of the most important issues of the financial markets since the launch of stock index futures by Kansas City Board of Trade in 1982. The main characteristics of derivatives such as having lower transaction costs, higher leverage, higher...

In this study, we examined the fractal structure of the Nikkei225, HangSeng, Shanghai Stock Exchange and Straits Times Index of Singapore. Empirical analysis was performed via non-parametric, semi-parametric long memory tests and also fractal dimension calculations. In order to avoid spurious...

We develop a new measure for the probability of informed trading, called PCP. Using double-sorted portfolios, we find that excess returns increase from low to high PCP portfolios. In regression analysis, the effect of PCP on returns is significantly positive after controlling for illiquidity...