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The Effect Of Effect On Emerging Stock Markets Of Four Southeast Asia Countries Essay

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Part 3 - Data and Methodology
3.1 Data Description The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence of January effect in emerging stock markets of four Southeast Asia countries: Malaysia, Thailand, Philippine and Indonesia, for the period of January 2012 until December 2015, which is the most recent period after the financial crisis in 2007-2008. The financial crisis would affect the behaviour of the stock markets and thus the stock price might not reflect its true value. As the most recent economic crisis is believed to have ended in Fall 2011 (Elliott 2011; Weisenthal 2013), this study will focus on the most recent 4-year period, from January 2012 until December 2015. The four Southeast Asia countries are selected because there are limited studies about them. Furthermore, they are the only Southeast Asia countries being included in MSCI Emerging Markets Index as of 2016. Thus it is worth examining the efficiency of the stock markets of these high growth emerging markets.
Daily equity market indices for four Southeast Asia countries will be collected from Yahoo Finance and DataStream. The daily price index is collected instead of monthly price index because this study attempts to examine if the January effect is stronger on the first five days of January. The indices are FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index (KLCI) for Malaysia, SET Index for Thailand, Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index (PSEi) for Philippine and IDX Composite Index for Indonesia. Since these

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