Efficient Market Hypothesis is an investment theory which states that it is impossible to ‘beat the market' because market efficiency causes exiting share prices to always incorporate and reflect all relevant information. Stocks are always traded at their fair value on stock exchanges and so...

The Size effect is one of the prominent anomalies which have been observed in the stock markets around the world. The present study attempts to find out if the portfolio of small stocks yields higher returns vis-a-vis the portfolio of large stocks and whether the size effect is present in the...

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...

This paper analyses the market anomalies and investor behavior that are not resolved with traditional finance theories. An extensive literature review is made to understand the behavioral biases. Main focus of this paper is to empirically test the impact of heuristics, disposition effect and...

Market Efficiency has been the objective of many researches across the globe since the last few decades. While some studies conclude that the stock markets are efficient, others cast doubt on this conclusion. In an efficient capital market stock prices incorporate all relevant information when...

Using a unique proprietary account-level trading dataset in China, we investigate how active information acquisition alleviates price-based return comovement, a typical anomaly in stock splits. We find that: 1) individual trading drives the comovement and the trading correlation between split...

In this article, a snapshot of the market performance during the two-year is presented and compared with the major overseas markets. A study considered a market performance of different sectors i.e. Information Technology and Banking with respect to the market. Further we analyzed that which...

Financial integration is one of the buzz words in financial world. The co movement of share prices across the stock markets in the world is a frequently experienced phenomenon. Especially during the times of crisis it is observed that the stock markets crash together. The oil crisis of 1973, the...