International capital markets tend to be characterized by volatility, which is always a function of world economic and political environment and is frequently associated with contagion risk and increased cross-market linkages. This phenomenon affects both developed markets and emerging markets,...

This paper examines the reaction of the Romanian financial markets to the changes of monetary policies in the US during 2013. Using daily data for Bucharest Stock Exchange main equity index, EURRON exchange rate, 5 and 2 year government bond price index and 5 year government CDS (USD) price, we...

This study investigates the presence of month-of-the-year effect on Bucharest Stock Exchange using a both a linear regression and a GARCH-M model with dummy variables for both the mean and the variance equation. We have collected monthly returns for five Romanian official exchange indices and...

In our paper we use data mining to compare the volatility structure of high (daily) and low (weekly, monthly) frequencies for seven Romanian companies traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange and three market indices, during 1997-2012. For each of the 10 time series and three frequencies we fit a...

In our paper we use data mining to compare the volatility structure of high (daily) and low (weekly, monthly) frequencies for seven Romanian companies traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange and three market indices, during 1997-2012. For each of the 10 time series and three frequencies we fit a...

This study investigates the presence on Bucharest Stock Exchange of one of the most documented seasonal anomalies of financial assets’ returns: the day-of-the-week effect. We use daily returns for five Romanian official exchange indices and for one MSCI Barra country index during May...

This article aims to study the evolution of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) and the particularities of its correlation with international stock markets during Jan 2007 - Dec 2009. The linear regression and correlation analysis on weekly and monthly data shows a good degree of synchronization...