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American depository receipts and calendar anomalies

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  • Janie Casello Bouges
  • Ravi Jain
  • Yash Puri

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This is the first study to examine the presence of calendar anomalies in American Depository Receipts (ADR) returns. Existing literature has documented several calendar anomalies in US and foreign markets. ADRs, however, represent a unique class of securities because they represent the ownership of stock of a foreign firm, but they are traded on US markets. We use the Standard & Poor's (S&P) ADR index returns for the period 1998-2004 to look for the presence of four important anomalies: the January effect, the day-of-the-week effect, the Turn-Of-The-Month (TOTM) effect and the holiday effect. For comparison, we do the same analysis on S&P 500 index returns. While we do not find evidence of any anomalies for S&P 500 index returns, we do find evidence to support the TOTM anomaly in the S&P ADR index returns. These results suggest that the market for ADRs may not be as efficient as the broader US stock market.

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  • Janie Casello Bouges & Ravi Jain & Yash Puri, 2009. "American depository receipts and calendar anomalies," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 17-25.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apfiec:v:19:y:2009:i:1:p:17-25
    DOI: 10.1080/09603100701748949
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    1. Paul McGuinness & Richard Harris, 2011. "Comparison of the 'turn-of-the-month' and lunar new year return effects in three Chinese markets: Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(13), pages 917-929.
    2. Lobão, Júlio, 2019. "Seasonal anomalies in the market for American depository receipts," Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science, Universidad ESAN, vol. 24(48), pages 241-265.
    3. Júlio Lobão & Maria Eva Jerke, 2020. "Short-term Overreaction in American Depository Receipts," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business (continues Analele Stiintifice), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 67(4), pages 423-435, December.
    4. Vijay Singal & Jitendra Tayal, 2020. "Risky short positions and investor sentiment: Evidence from the weekend effect in futures markets," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(3), pages 479-500, March.
    5. Boubaker, Sabri & Essaddam, Naceur & Nguyen, Duc Khuong & Saadi, Samir, 2017. "On the robustness of week-day effect to error distributional assumption: International evidence," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 114-130.
    6. Levy, Tamir & Yagil, Joseph, 2012. "The week-of-the-year effect: Evidence from around the globe," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(7), pages 1963-1974.

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