Presidential administrations and the day-of-the-week effect in stock returns

Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-99

  Liano, Kartono ^a   Liano, Kadir ^b   Manakyan, Herman ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pavilion Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Day of the week effect; Presidential administrations; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038803373     PISSN: 10583300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1058-3300(99)00008-7     Document Type: Article

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