DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS

This article examines the Day of the Week Effect for the main stock markets in Latin America in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, during the period, 1993-2007.1 undertake three different analyses, including GARCH models for the returns and volatility of daily returns by day of th...

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Autor principal: KRISTJANPOLLER RODRIGUEZ,WERNER
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Publicado: ILADES. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-887020120001000042013-07-19DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETSKRISTJANPOLLER RODRIGUEZ,WERNER Day of the week effect Latin America emerging markets This article examines the Day of the Week Effect for the main stock markets in Latin America in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, during the period, 1993-2007.1 undertake three different analyses, including GARCH models for the returns and volatility of daily returns by day of the week for the major stock market indexes in the region. I document significant evidence of a Monday Effect (lower than expected returns) or a Friday Effect (higher than expected returns) in many cases in the region. Thus, despite the mitigating influences of longstanding awareness of these anomalies and lowered information and transaction costs from the growth of the internet, the Day of the Week Effect has persisted into recent times.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessILADES. Universidad Alberto Hurtado.Revista de análisis económico v.27 n.1 20122012-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-88702012000100004en10.4067/S0718-88702012000100004
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Latin America
emerging markets
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Latin America
emerging markets
KRISTJANPOLLER RODRIGUEZ,WERNER
DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS
description This article examines the Day of the Week Effect for the main stock markets in Latin America in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, during the period, 1993-2007.1 undertake three different analyses, including GARCH models for the returns and volatility of daily returns by day of the week for the major stock market indexes in the region. I document significant evidence of a Monday Effect (lower than expected returns) or a Friday Effect (higher than expected returns) in many cases in the region. Thus, despite the mitigating influences of longstanding awareness of these anomalies and lowered information and transaction costs from the growth of the internet, the Day of the Week Effect has persisted into recent times.
author KRISTJANPOLLER RODRIGUEZ,WERNER
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title DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS
title_short DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS
title_full DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS
title_fullStr DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS
title_full_unstemmed DAY OF THE WEEK EFFECT IN LATIN AMERICAN STOCK MARKETS
title_sort day of the week effect in latin american stock markets
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