In this paper we use fractional integration techniques to examine the degree of integration of four US stock market indices, namely the Standard and Poor, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and NYSE, at a daily frequency from January 2005 till December 2009. We analyse the weekly structure of the series and...

Previous research has used survey and diary data to carefully document that Food Stamp recipients decrease their expenditures and consumption of food throughout the benefit month, the beginning of which is defined by the date on which benefits are distributed. The reliance on survey and diary...

Efficient market stated that stock's return is indifferent in each trading day. But, the calendar effects phenomenon made a different return in each single day in a week or month. This is an abnormal return which can affect investor in deciding investment strategy, portfolio selection, and...

This paper presents a programming routine in MATLAB software for applications in calendar effects or anomalies in stock returns. The calendar effects which are tested is the turn-of-the-month, the day-of-the-Week, the month-of-the-Year and the semi-month effect

This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...