Friday the 13th and the philosophical basis of financial economics

被引：2
作者：
Lucey B.M. [1 ]
机构：
[1] School of Business Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin
来源：
Journal of Economics and Finance | 2000年 / 24卷 / 3期
关键词：
Asset Price; Financial Economic; Capital Asset Price Model; International Evidence; Seasonal Affective Disorder;
D O I：
10.1007/BF02752610
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摘要：
The Friday the 13th anomaly of Kolb and Rodriguez (1987) is revisited in an international context. Drawing on the philosophy of science approach of Lakatos (1978), the paper argues the importance of "anomalies" and the need for triangulation. Using the FTSE world indices over 1988-2000 for 19 countries, it is found that there is some evidence that returns on Friday the 13th are statistically different from, and generally greater than, returns on other Fridays. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the possibility of an emergent paradigm incorporating work such as Jacobsen and Bouman (1998) and Kamstra, Kramer, and Levi (2000a).
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页码：294 / 301
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