This paper provides an analysis of the effectiveness of certain return predictors in Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) from January 1990 to December 2011 by employing both portfolio method and cross-sectional regressions. While we found no statistically significant predictive power of beta, total...

This paper evaluates the relation between two well-known anomalies in stock returns, viz, momentum and monthly effect. The monthly effect anomaly refers to the fact that stocks earn positive average returns only during the first half of the month and zero average returns during the second half....