Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect (one of the best known anomalies in financial markets) in Ukrainian futures prices. The analysis uses various statistical techniques. Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses various...

Purpose: Using data from 1820 onwards in a group of seven countries, namely, Australia, Chile, Denmark, France, the UK, Italy and the USA, the authors investigate if there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between the two variables (GDP and population). Design/methodology/approach: Using...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there exist multiple bubbles in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) stock markets. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors apply the generalized sup Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, a new recursive test...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the production of sugar cane ethanol in Brazil for the time period 1983-2016, separating the data by geographical location. Design/methodology/approach: For this purpose, the authors use techniques based on the concept of fractional integration. Findings:...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine price overreactions in the case of the following cryptocurrencies: bitcoin, litecoin, ripple and dash. Design/methodology/approach: A number of parametric (t-test, ANOVA, regression analysis with dummy variables) and non-parametric...