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The impact of Lunar New Year on the January anomaly in Taiwan's stock market

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Pages 1075-1077 | Published online: 07 Nov 2007
 

Abstract

This study empirically investigates the impact of Lunar New Year on the January anomaly in Taiwan's stock market. The Lunar New Year is the most significant festival for ethnic Chinese around the world, wherever they come from. It is a very jubilant occasion mainly because it is the time when people take a break from work to get together with family and friends. We hypothesize that the withdrawal of capital from the stock market to meet financial needs during this festival would compromise the anomaly when the Lunar New Year is in January. Empirical results support our hypothesis that the anomaly exists only when the Lunar New Year is in February.

Notes

1 Chien et al. (Citation2002) pointed out that the empirical results from employing a dummy variable regression model may be misleading due to the unequal variances in January and other months. We employed the mean test suggested by Chien et al. and found that the results didn’t change our conclusion that, the January anomaly in Taiwan's stock market is compromized by the Lunar New Year.

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