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...