Since the adhesion to European Union, the influence of the international financial markets on the Romanian capital market intensified. In this paper we investigate the impact of the shocks from New York Stock Exchange on the Bucharest Stock Exchange evolution. We found that a significant...

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...

In the recent times, the Coronavirus Pandemic substantially influenced the financial markets. Such influence includes the transformations experienced by some calendar anomalies. This paper investigates the Extended Holiday Effects presence on the returns of three indexes from the Bucharest Stock...

This paper explores the presence of the turn – of – the – month effect on Bucharest Stock Exchange. We employ daily values from 2002 to 2011 of the two important indices of the Romanian capital market: BET – C and RAQ – C, composed on the stock prices of some of the biggest Romanian...

Efficient Market Hypothesis states that financial markets react instantaneous and unbiased to new information. However, in the last decades empirical researches revealed some anomalies in investors reactions to the events that caused shocks on the financial markets. There are two main hypotheses...

In the recent context, capital markets are often affected by extreme events which generate sharp changes to the stock prices. According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, all the information that causes such shocks is incorporated in the same day in stock prices. However, empirical researches...

The persistence in time of the calendar anomalies is one of the most disputed subjects from the financial literature. Quite often, the passing from quiet to turbulent periods of time provokes radical changes in the investors' behaviors which affect the stock markets seasonality. In this paper we...

This paper approaches the presence of the Gone Fishin' effects on returns from 32 advanced and emerging markets during two periods of time: a relative quiet one and a turbulent one. For the first period we found that calendar anomaly was more pregnant on the advanced markets than on the emerging...

This paper explores some changes induced on the Romanian foreign exchange market by the global crisis. We study these changes from the perspective of number and intensity of the shocks occurred before and after the global crisis. We found some significant differences, explainable not only by the...

This paper approaches the behavior of stock prices from Bucharest Stock Exchange during winter school vacations from Romania. We employed closing values of five indexes from Bucharest Stock Exchange covering the period December 2012 - January 2023. We found, for all five indexes, high abnormal...