The wandering weekday effect in major stock markets

Doyle, John R. and Chen, Catherine Huirong (2009) The wandering weekday effect in major stock markets. Journal of Banking and Finance, 33 (8) . pp. 1388-1399. ISSN 0378-4266 [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.02.002)

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Abstract

This paper reports a wandering weekday effect: the pattern of day seasonality in stock market returns is not fixed, as assumed in the Monday or weekend effects, but changes over time. Analysing daily closing prices in eleven major stock markets during 1993-2007, our results show that the wandering weekday is not conditional on average returns in the previous week (the "twist" in the Monday effect). Nor does it diminish through the period of analysis. The results have important implications for market efficiency, and help to reconcile mixed findings in previous studies, including the reported disappearance of the weekday effect in recent years.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Reproduced by permission of publisher
Research Areas:	A. > Business School > Accounting and Finance
ISI Impact:	4
Item ID:	3716
Depositing User:	Dr Catherine Huirong Chen
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2010 08:20
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2021 18:11
URI:	https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/3716

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