See also the publication J.G. de Gooijer, C.G.H. Diks & L.T. Gatarek, 2012, 'Information flows around the globe: predicting opening gaps from overnight foreign stock price patterns', <I>Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics</I>, 4(1), 23-44.<P> This paper describes a forecasting...</p></i>

This paper describes a forecasting exercise of close-to-open returns on major global stock indices, based on price patterns from foreign markets that have become available overnight. As the close-to-open gap is a scalar response variable to a functional variable, it is natural to focus on...