Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/137587 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1573
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper is a comprehensive investigation of calendar anomalies in the Ukrainian stock market. It employs various statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t-test, ANOVA, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and regression analysis with dummy variables) and a trading simulation approach to test for the presence of the following anomalies: Day of the Week Effect; Turn of the Month Effect; Turn of the Year Effect; Month of the Year Effect; January Effect; Holiday Effect; HalloweenEffect. The results suggest that in general calendar anomalies are not present in the Ukrainian stock market, but there are a few exceptions, i.e. the Turn of the Year and Halloween Effect for the PFTS index, and the Month of the Year Effect for UX futures. However, the trading simulation analysis shows that only trading strategies based on the Turn of the Year Effect for the PFTS index and the Month of the Year Effect for the UX futures can generate exploitable profit opportunities that can be interpreted as evidence against market efficiency.
Subjects: 
Calendar Anomalies
Day of the Week Effect
Turn of the Month Effect
Month of the Year Effect
January Effect
Holiday Effect
Halloween Effect
JEL: 
G12
C63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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