英文摘要 |
Home economic industry, such as TV shopping network, online auction, and online games reverses the tendency towards recession and create business opportunities. Especially, the online gaming industry has the best performance. Therefore, this study will focus on the online gaming industry and select Chinese Gamer, International Games System, Soft-World, Softstar, and Gamania five companies as the research objects. This study employs 215 weekly data, and the time span is January 8th, 2010 to March 7th, 2014 in order to understand the seasonal effects of winter and summer vacation on the stock returns of five companies. The results show that the seasonal effects of winter and summer vacation on the stock returns of five companies are statistically significant and all of the stock returns of five companies are negative, and show the "sell on good news" phenomenon. That is to say, the stock prices react before the good news. International Games System has the positive stock return before winter and summer vacation. In other words, the effects of winter and summer vacation early react on the stock return. However, Softstar has the positive stock return before sum-mer vacation. That is, the effect of summer season early reacts on the stock return. |