The passing from quiet to turbulent periods could generate significant changes on some calendar anomalies of the capital markets. This paper approaches the persistence in time on Bucharest Stock Exchange of a seasonality associated to winter days. We investigate this calendar effect for three...

Very often, the holiday effects are studied only for the first day before and for the first day after any public holiday. Beside these traditional forms of the holiday effects it was revealed an extended one, which refers to the abnormal stocks returns occurring in intervals, containing some...

The extended Friday the 13th Effect is a calendar anomaly consisting in abnormal stock returns that occur in a time interval that starts some trading days before the supposed unlucky day of Friday the 13th and it ends some trading days after. This paper approaches the presence of such patterns...

This paper examines the presence of the turn-of-the-year effects on the Romanian capital market. We use the daily closing values of some important indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange for the period January 2000 – August 2017. In order to reveal the impact of a turbulent context on the...

The Turn-of-the-quarter (TOQ) Effect is a calendar anomaly consisting in abnormal returns occurring in a specific time interval, that starts in the mth last trading day of a quarter (BQ-m) and ends in the nth last trading day of a quarter (BQ+n). As many other anomalies, the TOQ Effect is not...

The Romanian version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2371572' http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2371572.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...

Trading rules of the technical analysis are widely used in investing on the capital markets. However, prediction of the financial markets movements based on their past evolutions is in contradiction with the principles of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. In case of the emerging markets, the...

This paper explores the impact of the large stock prices increases (positive shocks) and decreases (negative shocks) from the New York Stock Exchange on the returns and volatility of some European developed capital markets. We found that more than a half of shocks from these European stock...

This paper investigates the existence of the monthly effects on the Romanian Stock Exchange. We employ the returns of the main indices and the trading volume and the trading values from the main components of the Bucharest Stock Exchange. We find different forms of monthly seasonality...

The SAD effect is a calendar anomaly linked to the few length of the daylight during the autumn and the winter. In this paper we investigate the presence of this seasonal effect on the Romanian capital market. We find evidences of a significant SAD effect for an important index of the Bucharest...