The day of the week effect on the stock market return in the stock exchange of Tehran
Subject Areas : Journal of Investment KnowledgeFarshad Heybati 1 , Mahboobeh Behfar 2
1 - Assistant Professor of IAU, Science and Research Branch
2 - M.A , of IAU, Science and Research Branch
Keywords: Efficient Market Hypothesis, market anomalies, Behavioral Finance, Return, Panel data,
Abstract :
This thesis investigates the day of the week effect in TSE. The day of the week effect is calendar anomaly that has been widely studied and documented in finance literature. This anomaly indicates the repetitive trends or patterns in the time series behavior of stock market. In this study various indexes of TSE for the period of 1385 - 1388 are examined to specify the probable pattern in trading days of TSE in term of return. Furthermore in this study the daily correlation between main variable of this study are examined. Various descriptive statistics for the sample are calculated and classified in this research and show obvious differences in the days of the week. The results of testing in term of compare the day of the week effect in TSE for return are accepted. This study finds that the highest return is occurred in Wednesday. The implicit results of this research are the negative risk premium for major indexes of TSE.
