Seasonal and public holiday effects in the commercial rand/dollar exchange rate during the period 1984-1995

South African Journal of Business Management

 
 
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Title Seasonal and public holiday effects in the commercial rand/dollar exchange rate during the period 1984-1995
 
Creator Greshnev, D. N. Smit, E. V.D.M.
 
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Description The aim of the research is to extend the existing research into seasonalities in financial markets to the South African foreign exchange market to determine whether any of the known seasonal patterns are present in daily changes in the commercial S.A. rand/U.S. dollar exchange rate over the 11-year period, 1984 to 1995. Only statistically significant seasonal patterns in findings in the exchange rate changes for January versus other non-turn-of-the-month days effect are demonstrated. Contrary to the findings for the the mean daily changes, the volatility of the exchange rate demonstrates persistent and statistically significant seasonal anomalies for nearly all of the examined seasonal effects. A number of popular theories offering explanation of the seasonal regularities in the financial markets are offered as possible explanations for the findings.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 1997-03-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajbm.v28i1.784
 
Source South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 28, No 1 (1997); 6-14 2078-5976 2078-5585
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2018 D. N. Greshnev, E. V.D.M. Smit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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