Seasonalities in China's Stock Markets: Cultural or Structural?
46 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2006
Date Written: January 2006
Abstract
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.
Keywords: A-shares, B-shares, Chinese Lunar New Year, day-of-the-week effect, half-month effect, half-year effect, holiday effect, seasonalities, turn-of-the-year effect
JEL Classification: G11, G12, G14, G15
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