The day-of-the-week effect in foreign exchange markets: Multi-currency evidence

Research in International Business and Finance

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-57

  Yamori, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kurihara, Yutaka ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Day of the week effect; Foreign exchange market

Indexed keywords

EID: 3442884929     PISSN: 02755319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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