Seasonality and January Effect Anomalies in the Jordanian Capital Market

17 Pages Posted: 10 Dec 2003

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Aktham Issa Maghyereh

Hashemite University - Department of Finance and Banking

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Abstract

The Amman Stock exchange is examined for evidence of a seasonality of monthly stock returns and January effect anomaly. Using the standard GARCH, exponential GARCH (EGARCH) and the GJR models, we found no evidence of monthly seasonality as well as January effect in the ASE returns.

Keywords: Jordanian Capital Market,seasonality, January effect, GARCH

JEL Classification: G1, 053

Suggested Citation

Maghyereh, Aktham Issa, Seasonality and January Effect Anomalies in the Jordanian Capital Market. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=364361 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.364361

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