期刊名称:African Journal of Accounting Economics Finance and Banking Research
印刷版ISSN:1933-3404
电子版ISSN:1933-3463
出版年度:2007
卷号:1
期号:2
页码:26-43
出版社:Global Business Investments and Publications LLC
摘要:This paper investigates the presence of day-of-the-week effect, returns volatility and analyzes the annual returns of five African stock markets. A set of parametric and non-parametric tests is used to test equality of mean returns and standard deviations of the returns across the-days-of-the-week. To supplement this analysis, graphical representation of the indexes annual percentage changes was explored and their correlation determined. The results contradict the presence of the-day-of-the- week but indicate insignificant daily returns volatility in most of these Markets. The stock exchanges experienced enormous growth between 1997 and 2004. There was a high positive correlation of market gains and declines among the markets.