This paper examines empirically whether oil price shocks impact stock market returns. Using monthly data for eight developed countries from January 1991 to September 2013, strong negative connections between oil price and stock market returns are found in seven of the selected countries. Oil...

In this paper, we examine the behavior of returns across the-day-of-the-week in the context of the Tunisian Market. Our evidence indicates that Mondays have abnormally losses. In opposition, returns are significantly higher in Friday. We also find that these Monday and Friday specifications are...

This paper investigates the dynamic linkages between trading volume and investors sentiments for the S&P500 stock exchange. Two sentiment indicators are considered, the overconfidence and the net optimism-pessimism indicator. Non-linear dynamic approach, namely the asymmetric autoregressive...