In this paper, we investigate the day of the week and the month of the year effects in African stock markets, both in the Gregorian and the Hijri calendars. Specifically, we investigate Monday effect, Friday effect, January effect and Ramadan effect, from January 2009 to December 2019, using OLS...

This study investigates the hedge and safe-haven properties of precious metals for African stock markets and report a strong safe-haven and hedging potential of precious metals for African stock markets with gold showing a consistent display of these features from the GARCH model. Results from...