This paper presents a programming routine in MATLAB software for applications in calendar effects or anomalies in stock returns. The calendar effects which are tested is the turn-of-the-month, the day-of-the-Week, the month-of-the-Year and the semi-month effect

In this paper we present Markowitz finance portfolio theory and efficient frontier with no bootstrap simulation , with single ordinary bootstrap and finally with double bootstrap simulation and we conclude that there are significant differences between those estimations. We prefer bootstrap...

Unemployment can negatively affect individuals, their families and communities in various ways. When individuals are out of work may experience mental and physical health problems, material deprivation and poverty. This study aims to examine the impact of unemployment benefits on health, living...

A broad consensus among the academic, and other national and international institutions is that poverty cannot be measured and simply defined by the lack of monetary resources, but it is a combination of a range of non-monetary factors. These factors may act as constraints on individuals'...

Poverty has been ongoing for many years and still continues to exist in almost all countries around the globe. The objective of alleviating poverty in many nations therefore, remains a significant issue. To comprehend the risks posed by the issue of poverty, its dimension and the process by...

The purpose of this paper is to examine if there are calendar anomalies in the Greek Stock market and to confirm the findings of other researches. Specifically two models are presented, one for the day of the week effect test and other for the month of the year effect. We provide GARCH...

In this work we show a briefly presentation of four approaches to opinion polls. The example we present here, is referred on exit polls which have been realized for the elections of Serres Municipal in Greece on October 22nd of 2006. The methodology can be applied in any opinion poll, not only...

In this paper is examined and presented an alternative method in time-series analysis and forecasting. In the specific project is being a concentration of certain ideas that I had as a student in the third and fourth year of my undergraduate studies in the Economic Science, as I had the unique...

In econometric theory an important problem of estimation is the appearance of autocorrelation and of course the solution of it so that we will be able get off the problem of the autocorrelation from the old model ant to conduct to a new econometric model to forecast the prises in the future as...

A well-known hypothesis providing support for a policy that emphasizes economic growth at the expense of environmental protection is the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. Although this relation has been mainly explored at the macro-economic level, there are few researches examining...