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“Sell not only in May”. Seasonal Effects on Stock Markets

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  • Tomasz Schabek

    (University of Lodz)

  • Henrique Castro

    (Business and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo)

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Described in literature stock market anomaly still remains unexplained. In long time series regressions and wide geographical spread research, “Halloween effect” is significant on 19 amongst 73 markets, but also on 11 amongst 23 with long time series data. The data shows that abnormal returns could be realized also in strategies starting in October, November and December. We conclude that even with control of weather (sun hours), behavioral (sentiment index, number of IPOs) and macroeconomic (industrial production) factors, the effect persists.

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  • Tomasz Schabek & Henrique Castro, 2017. "“Sell not only in May”. Seasonal Effects on Stock Markets," Dynamic Econometric Models, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, vol. 17, pages 5-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpn:umkdem:v:17:y:2017:p:5-18
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    Keywords

    seasonal anomaly; behavioral factor; Halloween indicator; January effect; sell in May;
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    JEL classification:

    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • Q47 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy Forecasting
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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