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Around‐the‐Clock Performance of Closed‐End Funds
Author(s) -
Branch Ben,
Ma Aixin,
Sawyer Jill
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
financial management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.647
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1755-053X
pISSN - 0046-3892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-053x.2010.01108.x
Subject(s) - closed end fund , net asset value , univariate , monetary economics , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , open end fund , asset (computer security) , economics , business , econometrics , multivariate statistics , finance , market liquidity , statistics , mathematics , computer science , institutional investor , corporate governance , computer security , artificial intelligence
Herein, we find that the market price of closed‐end fund shares tends to increase (decrease) in anticipation of a rise (fall) in the net asset value (NAV). Similarly, an increase (decrease) in the reported NAV tends to be followed by a rise (fall) in the price of the fund's shares. Interestingly, we also find a powerful negative autocorrelation between closed‐end fund shares’ overnight and intraday returns in both univariate and multivariate tests for both the overall sample and a number of subsamples. We believe that this tendency results from the strategies that many specialists employ when they open their assigned shares.