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Sell in May and go away : adage or self-fulfilling prophecy ?

datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
dc.contributor.advisorKokkonen, Joni
dc.contributor.authorSantos, António Maria Barahona da Silva Martins dos
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-19T16:23:31Z
dc.date.available2014-03-19T16:23:31Z
dc.date.issued2013-04-11
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore the “Sell in May” effect, which is related to the fact that financial markets seem to provide positively significant returns from November to April and not significant or negatively significant returns from May until October. The Sell in May effect is present in 30 out of 37 indexes, using a sample of 37 country indexes from 1970 to 2011. All sectors of activity are consistently affected by this seasonal pattern, being the effect stronger in production related sectors. The effect is largely felt in high market capitalization companies and less in companies with high dividend yield, being that there is not any clear pattern regarding Price-Earnings ratio. Furthermore, a strategy developed taken into account the “Sell in May” effect outperforms the benchmark, providing higher risk-adjusted returns for an investor.por
dc.identifier.tid201090570
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/13831
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.subjectStock marketspor
dc.subjectHalloween effectpor
dc.subjectSell in Maypor
dc.subjectAnomalypor
dc.subjectMarket efficiencypor
dc.subjectSectorspor
dc.subjectPrice-earningspor
dc.subjectDividend yieldpor
dc.titleSell in May and go away : adage or self-fulfilling prophecy ?por
dc.typemaster thesis
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typemasterThesispor
thesis.degree.nameMestrado em Gestão

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