The weekly structure of US stock prices

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria and Gil-Alana, Luis A. (2011) The weekly structure of US stock prices. Centre for EMEA Banking, Finance and Economics Working Paper Series, 2011 (10). pp. 2-22.

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In this paper we use fractional integration techniques to examine the degree of integration of four US stock market indices, namely the Standard and Poor, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and NYSE, at a daily frequency from January 2005 till December 2009. We analyse the weekly structure of the series and investigate their characteristics depending on the specific day of the week. The results indicate that the four series are highly persistent; a small degree of mean reversion (i.e., orders of integration strictly smaller than 1) is found in some cases for S&P and the Dow Jones indices. The most interesting findings are the differences in the degree of dependence for different days of the week. Specifically, lower orders of integration are systematically observed for Mondays and Fridays, consistently with the “day of the week” effect frequently found in financial data.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Centre for EMEA Banking, Finance and Economics Working Paper Series, Fractional Integration, Weekly Structure, Stock Prices, United States
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Department:	Guildhall School of Business and Law
Depositing User:	David Pester
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2015 09:51
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 15:39
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/411

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