Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the day-of-the-week effect for three primary money market instruments in Canada. The sample period is 1980-2009. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use three approaches. First, a parametric t-test is employed to determine if a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the day‐of‐the‐week effect for three primary money market instruments in Canada. The sample period is 1980‐2009. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use three approaches. First, a parametric t ‐test is employed to determine if...

This article extends the empirical literature on the efficiency of stock markets in the US by applying a battery of unit root tests to empirically ascertain whether stock prices are mean reverting. This article, unlike previous studies, employs a disaggregated approach using the daily closing...