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The Day-of-the-Week Effect Revisited: An Alternative Testing Approach

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  • Alt, Raimund

    (Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)

  • Fortin, Ines

    (Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)

  • Weinberger, Simon

Abstract

This paper questions traditional approaches for testing the day-of-the-week effect on stock returns. We propose an alternative approach based on the closure test principle introduced by Marcus, Peritz and Gabriel (1976), which has become very popular in Biometrics and Medical Statistics. We test all pairwise comparisons of daily expected stock returns, while the probability of committing any type I error is always kept smaller than or equal to some prespecified level a for each combination of true null hypotheses. We confirm day-of-theweek effects for the S&P 500, the FTSE 30 and the DAX 30 found in earlier studies, but find no evidence for the 1990's.

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  • Alt, Raimund & Fortin, Ines & Weinberger, Simon, 2002. "The Day-of-the-Week Effect Revisited: An Alternative Testing Approach," Economics Series 127, Institute for Advanced Studies.
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    Keywords

    Day-of-the-week effect; Multiple hypotheses testing; Multiple comparisons; Closed test procedures; Multiple level a test;
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    • C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Hypothesis Testing: General
    • C20 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - General
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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