This paper approaches the behavior of stock prices from Bucharest Stock Exchange during winter school vacations from Romania. We employed closing values of five indexes from Bucharest Stock Exchange covering the period December 2012 - January 2023. We found, for all five indexes, high abnormal...

Since their discovery, many calendar anomalies experienced different types of changes. This paper explores the possibility of enlargement of the time interval specific to the January Effect on London Stock Exchange. We investigate the abnormal returns presence on an extended time interval that...

This paper investigates the asymmetric volatility behavior of Nepalese stock market including the spillover effects from the US and Indian equity markets. We model asymmetric volatility within generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity framework using a comprehensive data for...

This study aims to investigate the dynamic conditional correlation and volatility spillover between the conventional and Islamic stock markets in developed and emerging countries in order to develop better portfolio and asset allocation strategies. We used both multivariate GARCH (MGARCH) and...

This paper examines the efficiency of the Jordanian stock exchange and the relationship between returns and conditional volatility. An AR(1)-GARCH(1,1)-M model is estimated for five daily indices. The empirical results indicate significant departures from the efficient market hypothesis; in only...

This paper examines the behavior of seasonal anomalies in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) of Bangladesh and whether the time varying nature of the anomalies is in line with Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH). With this aim the research investigated whether the changes in market conditions, for example:...

In the recent times, the Coronavirus Pandemic substantially influenced the financial markets. Such influence includes the transformations experienced by some calendar anomalies. This paper investigates the Extended Holiday Effects presence on the returns of three indexes from the Bucharest Stock...

This paper employes a parametric model of structural breaks in the mean of stock returns which allows them to be endogenously driven by large positive or negative stock market return shocks. These shocks can be taken to reflect important market announcements, monetary policy regime shifts and/or...

We investigate the impact of stock market cycles on unlisted firms' investment activities. We find that bull markets is associated with increased capital expenditures, new establishments, and employment growth in the unlisted corporate sector, while bear markets is associated with a decrease in...

Based on monthly data covering the period from 1987 to 2019, we analyse whether cross-sectional moments of stock market returns may provide information about the future position of the German business cycle. We apply in-sample forecasting regressions with and without leading indicators as...