Normal Distribution of Returns of Warsaw Stock Exchange Indexes

Abstract

The paper verified the hypothesis regarding a normal distribution of returns of Warsaw Stock Exchange indexes for the following time intervals: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly. The analyzed rates of return were calculated in the following outlines: closing-closing, opening-opening, opening-closing and overnight. The verification of statistical hypotheses was conducted with the use of the following seven statistical tests: Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Lilliefors, Shapiro-Wilk, Chi-squared, Cramer von Mises, Watson, Anderson-Darling. The analyzed indexes were ranked due to the convergence of their return to the normal distribution with the use of the following tests: Jarque-Bera, Shapiro-Wilk and D’Agostino-Pearson. JEL: G14, G15 null The creation of the English-language version of these publications is fi nanced in the framework of contract No. 607/P-DUN/2018 by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education committed to activities aimed at the promotion of education.

Keywords

• normal distribution
• return rates
• stock indexes
• ranking of equity indexes