Revisiting the Holiday Effect: is it on holiday?

Earlier researchers found excess stock market returns in the United States on the days before holiday market closings, ranging from 6 to 27 times as large as returns on other days, as measured by a variety of indices and over periods up to 90 years. We show that, in the ten years from 1987 to 1996,...

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Stock returns
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