Is There Seasonality in Traded and Non-Traded Period Returns in the US Equity Market? A Multiple Structural Change Approach

Joao Dionisio Monteiro (), Jose Luis Miralles-Quiros () and Jose Ramos Manso
Additional contact information
Joao Dionisio Monteiro: Department of Management and Economics, NECE, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Jose Luis Miralles-Quiros: Department of Financial Economics, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: José Luis Miralles Quirós

Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver), 2018, vol. 68, issue 1, 71-98

Abstract: This paper simultaneously examines day-of-the-week, turn-of-the-month and pre- and post-holidays calendar effects in traded and non-traded daily period returns in a group of broad-index exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track the major US stock indices (S&P 500, DJIA 30, NASDAQ 100 and Russel 2000 index). Bai and Perron (1998, 2003)’s method is employed to examine stability of the significant calendar effects over time and across ETFs. Results exhibit a high instability of the significant calendar effects over the various regimes up until 2001. From 2001 onwards and until the end of 2013, only a single regime across all ETFs is identified. In this last regime, results point to the disappearance of the previous significant effects across the US equity ETFs group. Unstable observed effects could have been motivated by market-specific conditions in such short time periods. The disappearance of these effects from 2001 onwards are consistent with the nature of this asset class: these ETFs are broadly diversified portfolios with diversification of private information, with higher liquidity and lower transactions cost, which is likely to reduce potential calendar effects.

Keywords: night and daytime returns; market efficiency; US equity exchange-traded funds; calendar effects; multiple structural change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 G1 G12 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://journal.fsv.cuni.cz/storage/1403_71-98_monteiro_final_issue_1_2018.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fau:fauart:v:68:y:2018:i:1:p:71-98

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Natalie Svarcova ().