This paper uses the celebrated no-arbitrage affine Gaussian term structure model applied to index-linked and standard government bonds to derive expected inflation rates and inflation risk premia, in the euro area and in the US. Maximum likelihood estimates show that the model describes the...

This paper quantifies the diversification potential of timberland investments in a mean-variance framework. The starting point is a broad set of benchmark assets represented by various indexes. Including publicly traded timberland investments from the US and Canada in the portfolio does not...

We argue that the Jacobsen and Visaltanachoti (2009) study is incomplete. Jacobsen and Visaltanachoti (2009) evaluate the Halloween effect or ‘Sell in May'-effect as documented by Bouman and Jacobsen (2002), and extend the analysis into the relative performances of sectors during the winter...

This paper adopts the methodology in Bali and Cakici (2008) in tracking the evolution of the relation between equity REITs' idiosyncratic risk and their cross-sectional expected returns between 1981 and 2010. In addition to the full sample period, we study this relation for (i) all sample REITs,...

The hedging and safe haven properties of Bitcoin for the US dollar are investigated across a variety of investment horizons. Our findings reveal that (i) Bitcoin acts as a weak hedge for all currency pairs examined, with some evidence of negative average dependency for Euro, Swiss Franc and...

This paper conducts comprehensive analyses to estimate the overall reparation for 246 years of slavery with over 9.79 million slaves and over 410,403 million labor hours of slavery. We separated the overall reparation between the United States and the United Kingdom since the origin of slavery...

John Maynard Keynes (1930) asserted that the central bank sways the long-term interest rate through the influence of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. Recent empirical research shows that Keynes's conjecture holds for long-term Treasury yields in the United States. This paper...

We investigate a novel dataset of more than half a million 15 second transcribed audio snippets containing COVID-19 mentions from major US TV stations throughout 2020. Using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, we identify seven COVID-19 related topics...

Purpose - The present research aims to examine a range of momentum trading strategies for the tourism and hospitality sector. Design/methodology/approach - The paper followed the methodology of Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) to construct the portfolios. In this methodology, all portfolios were...

Inter-dealer trading in US Treasury Securities is almost equally divided between two similar electronic trading platforms. This provides a natural experiment within which to test the propositions of Bloomfield & O'Hara (1999 and 2000) about price discovery in fragmented markets. We examine the...