I’m using 720 daily returns for each stock company (144 stocks) to calculate CARs and BHARs in monthly wise. For each stock at any period of time (36 months and each month has 20 trading days) the answers from both measures are different.

example: stock AA in first trading month CAR and BHAR is not same.

But in whole sample final answers at each month is almost similar in both methods. Is that possible or did I do any mistakes in the calculation steps?

  • ARR - first monthly average of each stock (144) separately and then sum of those average values in each month divided by nu of stocks. finally calculate the cumulative returns by adding monthly sample returns.
  • BHAR- simply followed the formula in daily basis and considered the values at each 20 days.

The formulas which I used is attached here. Please help me to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.

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