This paper approaches some simple methods for the calendar anomalies identification. Taking the TOY Effect as an example, we show how the t tests or the OLS regressions could be used to detect a seasonal component of the financial assets’ returns.

Some calendar anomalies that were detected in the stock markets could be also found in the foreign exchange markets. This paper approaches the presence of Turn-of-the-Year Effect in the logarithmic returns of Romanian leu – US dollar exchange rate daily values for a period that starts in July...

The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) generated some non-routine problems, characterized by a high degree of uncertainty which makes difficult the solving by the full rational decision making models. In the field of finance, such problems are those associated to the fiscal and monetary...

This paper investigates the presence of Gone Fishin’ Effects on the Romanian Capital Market from January 2000 to July 2013. In this analysis we employ daily values of five main indexes of Bucharest Stock Exchange. We use GARCH models to reveal this seasonality not only on indexes returns but...

In the financial decision-making there could occur wrong perceptions over some essential aspects such as risk or profitability. The illusions associated to the indebtedness decisions have some particularities, caused especially by the insufficient financial knowledge of some debtors. Sometimes,...

The goal of this paper is to present some of the work conducted in order to create a cash-flow DSS that aims to improve the financial decisions of Romanian small and medium enterprise managers. In order to create the desired DSS two major stages were followed: the construction of models for...

The present financial crisis will considerably influence the architecture of contemporary banking systems. In this context, we will witness a series of changes from the point of view of the number of institutions, their typology, sources and the ways to attract resources, the property’s form...

The paper is aimed to derive, on criticism basis (following, especially, the critic rationalism, as method), epistemological suggestions from the crucial work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, “The Entropy Law and the Economic Process”, in order as these suggestions or challenges constitute...