Abstract

The weekend effect, as documented in earlier finance literatures, refers to the tendency in which stock returns are lower on Mondays relative to the other days of the week. This paper confirms and extends the results illustrated in these earlier literatures by showing that the weekend effect exists in the early years and it is beginning to diminish in the recent years. This paper also finds out that the weekend effect is related to the industries in which the firms belong to. In addition, this paper demonstrates that the weekend effect as defined in earlier literatures is in fact a Monday effect rather than a weekend effect.

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