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Holiday Effects and Stock Returns: Further Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Chan-Wung Kim  and
Jinwoo Park
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Abstract

This paper provides further evidence of the holiday effect in stock returns and additional insight into the effect. This paper reports abnormally high returns on the trading day before holidays in all three of the major stock markets in the U.S.: the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. The holiday effect is also present in the U.K. and Japanese stock markets, even though each country has different holidays and institutional arrangements. This study finds that the holiday effects in the U.K. and Japanese stock markets are independent of the holiday effect in the U.S. stock market. Unlike the other seasonal patterns in stock returns, such as January and weekend effects, this investigation of size decile portfolios shows that the size effect is not present in mean returns on preholidays.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 145 - 157
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1994

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