Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec.
The random walk hypothesis is a theory which states that market prices are not influenced by prior price movements and therefore, prices in the stock market cannot simply be predicted. The stock market is considered efficient and follows the random walk theory when intelligent market participants le...
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| author | Mohamed Yousopa, Nur Liyana Sipon, Zuraidah Soo Kum Yokec, Carolyn |
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| description | The random walk hypothesis is a theory which states that market prices are not influenced by prior price movements and therefore, prices in the stock market cannot simply be predicted. The stock market is considered efficient and follows the random walk theory when intelligent market participants lead the situation and reflect all available information based on the past or future events. The phenomena of calendar anomalies in stock markets are proven from the previous study, where behavior of returns tend to be high or low during specific calendar periods. Thus, for this study, we aims to investigate relationships between lunar effect and average stock returns for ten emerging countries for the period of January 2004 until December 2010. A lunar effect is a phenomenon where mean returns around the new moon is higher than mean returns around the full moon. Using non-parametric and basic multiple linear regression analysis, the result shows that returns on the full moon were slightly lower as compared to the returns on the new moon prior to the financial crisis and vice versa during the financial crisis. |
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| spelling | uitm-193052020-04-21T00:06:26Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19305/ Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. jeeir Mohamed Yousopa, Nur Liyana Sipon, Zuraidah Soo Kum Yokec, Carolyn Business cycles. Economic fluctuations. Economic indicators Finance and cycles. Financial crises. Convergence (Economics) The random walk hypothesis is a theory which states that market prices are not influenced by prior price movements and therefore, prices in the stock market cannot simply be predicted. The stock market is considered efficient and follows the random walk theory when intelligent market participants lead the situation and reflect all available information based on the past or future events. The phenomena of calendar anomalies in stock markets are proven from the previous study, where behavior of returns tend to be high or low during specific calendar periods. Thus, for this study, we aims to investigate relationships between lunar effect and average stock returns for ten emerging countries for the period of January 2004 until December 2010. A lunar effect is a phenomenon where mean returns around the new moon is higher than mean returns around the full moon. Using non-parametric and basic multiple linear regression analysis, the result shows that returns on the full moon were slightly lower as compared to the returns on the new moon prior to the financial crisis and vice versa during the financial crisis. UiTM Press 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19305/1/AJ_NUR%20LIYANA%20MOHAMED%20YOUSOP%20JEEIR%20B%2014.pdf Mohamed Yousopa, Nur Liyana and Sipon, Zuraidah and Soo Kum Yokec, Carolyn (2014) Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. (2014) Journal of Emerging Economies and Islamic Research (JEEIR) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Emerging_Economies_and_Islamic_Research_=28JEEIR=29.html>, 2 (2). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2289-2559 https://journal.uitm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/JEEIR/ |
| spellingShingle | Business cycles. Economic fluctuations. Economic indicators Finance and cycles. Financial crises. Convergence (Economics) Mohamed Yousopa, Nur Liyana Sipon, Zuraidah Soo Kum Yokec, Carolyn Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. |
| title | Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. |
| title_full | Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. |
| title_fullStr | Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. |
| title_short | Lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / Nur Liyana Mohamed Yousopa, Zuraidah Sipon and Carolyn Soo Kum Yokec. |
| title_sort | lunar effect : analysis on emerging countries stock returns, prior and during financial crisis / nur liyana mohamed yousopa, zuraidah sipon and carolyn soo kum yokec. |
| topic | Business cycles. Economic fluctuations. Economic indicators Finance and cycles. Financial crises. Convergence (Economics) |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19305/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19305/ |