In this paper, we investigate the day of the week and the month of the year effects in African stock markets, both in the Gregorian and the Hijri calendars. Specifically, we investigate Monday effect, Friday effect, January effect and Ramadan effect, from January 2009 to December 2019, using OLS...

In this paper, we examine the January effect in China’s A-share stock market from January 1995 to December 2019 using both the solar and lunar calendars. We find consistent with the existing literature the absence of a traditional January effect in the solar calendar; however, we observe a...

One of the widely discussed issues in the financial literature is the daily seasonality in asset prices. In this study, we shed fresh lights and explore the evolution of weekday seasonality in the US capital market. For this sake, we utilize daily data for the period January 1990 to August 2022....

In this paper, we examine the January effect in China’s A-share stock market from January 1995 to December 2019 using both the solar and lunar calendars. We find consistent with the existing literature the absence of a traditional January effect in the solar calendar; however, we observe a...

Some calendar anomalies could have different characteristics during quiet and turbulent times. This paper approaches the behavior of day-of-the-week (DOW) effect on the Romanian foreign exchange market for three periods: January 2010 - December 2014, January 2015 - December 2019 and January 2020...

We examine the turn-of-the-month (TOM) effect in the Korean stock market, a representative emerging market in Asia. The returns show that the TOM effect is statistically significant and is not due to size or turn-of-the-year, turn-of-the-quarter, or index rebalancing effects. Although extant...

Bitcoin emerged as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system with no owner and no central authority. It has increased in popularity over the years due to reasons such as being used as a means of exchange without the need for any intermediary, fast and low cost of transactions. In this process, the...