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Seasonalities in China's stock markets : cultural or structural? /

In this paper, we examine returns in the Chinese A and B stock markets for evidence of calendar anomalies. We find that both cultural and structural (segmentation) factors play an important role in influencing the pricing of both A- and B-shares in China. There is some evidence of a February turn-of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Mitchell, Jason D. (Jason David), 1966- (Autor), Ong, Li Lian (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Department
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Monetary and Financial Systems Dept., 2006.
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/06/4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this paper, we examine returns in the Chinese A and B stock markets for evidence of calendar anomalies. We find that both cultural and structural (segmentation) factors play an important role in influencing the pricing of both A- and B-shares in China. There is some evidence of a February turn-of-the-year effect, partly owing to the timing of the Chinese Lunar New Year (CNY); and the holiday effect around the CNY period is stronger and more persistent compared with the other public holidays. The segmentation between the two markets is apparent in the day-of-the-week effect, where B stock markets tend to post significant negative returns on Tuesdays, corresponding with overnight developments in the United States, while significant negative returns are observed on Mondays in the A stock markets. Investment strategies based on some of these calendar anomalies, and allowing for transaction costs, suggest that the A stock markets tend to offer more economically significant returns.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (44 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-44).
ISBN:9781451908008
1451908008