Title
Calendar effects in Latin American stock markets
Date Issued
01 May 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
One of the most well-documented empirical regularities in international finance is the presence of calendar effects in historical stock returns. The literature focuses mainly on developed countries, and in general, emerging markets have not received much attention on this issue. We aim to bridge this gap by documenting the existence of significant and robust calendar effects for the main stock markets in Latin America. Upon performing an extreme bounds analysis that adjusts our estimations for model uncertainty, we find a significantly negative Monday effect, generally compensated by a significantly positive Friday effect. These effects are robust to model specification and are stable through time. Even though not as widespread, we also find evidence for a robust turn-of-the-month effect.
Start page
1215
End page
1235
Volume
54
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85017129712
Source
Empirical Economics
ISSN of the container
03777332
Sponsor(s)
We thank Mauricio Barriga for valuable research assistance and insight. We are also indebted to Alejandro Sancho, Mauricio Zevallos, Eduardo Walker, to participants at the II Annual Congress of the Peruvian Economic Association and at the XXXIII Economists Meeting of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru for useful comments, and to two anonymous referees for helping us improving the content and clarity of this article. The financial support of the Universidad del Pacífico Research Center is gratefully acknowledged. We alone are responsible for the views expressed here and for any errors that may remain.
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