In some circumstances, the classical form of the Holiday Effect, consisting in abnormal returns that occur one trading day before and one trading day after a public holiday, could be replaced by an extended form, in which abnormal returns are found in an enlarged time interval. This paper...

This paper approaches the possibilities of building investment strategies based on the calendar anomaly known as Friday the 13th effect. In this investigation we employ, for the period January 2010-August 2018, the closing values of three indexes from the United States capital market. We found...

Romanian Abstract: Această lucrare aduce în atenţie caracteristicile domeniului finanţelor comportamentale. Vom discuta despre posibilitatea de a utiliza metode ale psihologiei cognitive pentru a înţelege dimensiunea iraţională a deciziilor financiare. Vom aborda, de asemenea, procesele...

This paper explores the behavior of the Romanian capital market during the two period of fasting: the Great Lent and of the Nativity Fast. In this investigation we employ closing values of five indexes from Bucharest Stock Exchange for the period January 2007-August 2016. The sample of data is...

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 approaches the opportunities for contrarian and momentum profits during the periods of high trading volume preceded by stock prices shocks. We investigate these aspects for ten stocks from New York Stock Exchange. We found that more than three quarters of the periods of high trading...

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 religious practices generate some important calendar effects on the stock markets evolutions. This paper explores the impact on stock markets of two periods from the Catholic Church Calendar, Advent and Lent, for the period January 2009–May 2017. We employ as data the closing daily values...

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 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...