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 time series techniques are widely used in the financial analysis. This paper approaches some characteristics of the financial variables that particularize their evolution. It also presents some simple techniques of the time series analysis.

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...

Romanian Abstract: Tehnicile seriilor de timp sunt utilizate frecvent în analiza financiară. Această lucrare abordează unele caracteristici ale variabilelor financiare care le particularizează evoluţia. Sunt prezentate, de asemenea, câteva tehnici simple de analiză a seriilor de timp

Romanian Abstract: Lucrarea de faţă abordează tematica arbitrajului preţurilor dezvoltată de către Stephen A. Ross (1976), care porneşte de la premiza că valorile mobiliare subevaluate pot fi revândute pe o altă piaţă în ideea de a profita în urma diferenţei de preţ, această...

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...