This paper explores the relationship between CAC 40 Index and other three indexes from Central and East European countries: PX Index, BUX Index and BET-C Index before and during the global crisis. In our investigation we employ daily values of the four indexes from two periods of time: a...

This paper approaches the volatility transmission from the New York Stock Exchange to an emerging market, Bucharest Stock Exchange. In our investigation we employ daily values of Standard and Poor 500 Index from New York Stock Exchange and of six main indexes from Bucharest Stock Exchange. The...

This paper explores the relationship between CAC 40 Index and other three indexes from Central and East European countries: PX Index, BUX Index and BET-C Index before and during the global crisis. In our investigation we employ daily values of the four indexes from two periods of time: a...

This study presents a survey on the current methodologies employed in the asset allocation industry. We review techniques from Modern Portfolio Theory and focus on the central role of the mean-variance optimization problem. The formalism of the Black-Litterman model is discussed with its...

In the last decades the specialized literature revealed the seasonal effects on the financial markets evolution. Among them there is the day-of-the-week effect, which consists in significant differences from the average returns on some days of the week than others. This paper investigates the...

The adhesion to the European Union represented a turning point for the Romanian capital market. Before the adhesion Bucharest Stock Exchange experienced a relatively quiet period which lasted for many years. Instead, after Romania had became member of the European Union the capital market...

This paper examines the changes induced by the actual financial crisis in the dynamic relation between the currency rates and the differentials of the interest rates from Romania and euro area. In the framework of the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity hypothesis we apply the Vector Autoregressive...

This paper investigates the systematic patterns displayed by the Romanian Foreign Exchange Market in some months of the year. In our analysis we employ monthly values of the Romanian national currency rates against the United States dollar and the euro. We find that since the Foreign Exchange...

This paper explores the changes in the daily seasonality of the Romanian foreign market from January 2005 to February 2010. Our investigation employs data from the prices in the Romanian national currency, of the two main currencies used in the financial transactions: euro and US dollar. For the...

This paper explores the opportunities of momentum and contrarian profits on the Bucharest Stock Exchange during quiet and turbulent times. In our investigation we employ daily values of the main indexes from the Bucharest Stock Exchange for two periods of time. During the first period, from...