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,...

This paper studies the particularities of portfolio selection on the Romanian stock market using the risk-return maximization criteria introduced by Harry Markowitz (1952). We used daily prices for the 36 most liquid companies traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange during January 2010 – March 2012...

Making a credit decision is limited to a reasoned agreement or refusal. The key words in making the credit analysis are "customer knowledge". The substantiation of the credit decision refers to both a quantitative analysis and a qualitative analysis of a company in order to identify the key...

Market economy is characterized at a time, among others, by the existence of twopartners, so that one has some money, a certain amount of capital, and one needs money. The first has money and wants to capitalize on them as possible, and the second wants to enter into possession of a capital base...

The achievement of a project of investments in agriculture, through the utilization of the financial instrument European Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development means the calculation and the analysis of some obligatory indicators. These indicators of the economical efficiency of investments...

From the multitude of variations of capital investment on the capital market, this work cuts two of them namely capital investments in options contracts and capital investments in straddle contracts. A distinct place it occupies in the paper presentation of the operating mechanisms of the two...