Both cryptocurrencies and gold are scarce, expensive for extraction, and less affected by money supply. We focus on these similarities and investigate whether cryptocurrency network affects impact on expected return on gold. Our results show that the number of cryptocurrency wallet users is...

Finance research contributes to finding factors to explain the cross-sectional expected equity and cryptocurrency returns. In this paper, we implement the statistical methods to evaluate the common factor structure of these two markets and aim to identify the possible common factors across two...

We study carry trades in the cryptocurrency market and document that the lack of sufficient arbitrage capital in combination with highly levered speculators creates ample carry opportunities. We find that carry in bitcoin, as measured by the funding rate of BTC/USD perpetual swaps, resembles...

We propose a measure of investors' climate sentiment by performing sentiment analysis on StockTwits posts on climate change and global warming. We find that when investors' climate sentiment is high, emission stocks are relatively overpriced. Moreover, we show that an increase in carbon prices...

Australian Steve Keen was, in fact, one of just 13 registered economists , out of a global total of around 36,000 (yes that really comes out as 0.04%), who actually anticipated the global financial crisis.Knowing this, I think it’s almost impossible not to want to read his latest book,...

We obtain new methodological and empirical perspectives on the fundamental risk-return tradeoff in stock returns by imposing economic and asset pricing motivated constraints on the equity premium. In contrast to highly ambiguous past empirical findings, these constraints result in a nonlinear...

Most long-run empirical research on the historical risk premium has focused on the experience of the United States. However, the United States has been a remarkably successful economy, making it unlikely that the US risk premium is representative. Until recently, evidence on the risk premium in...

The consequences of Covid-19 on the financial sector have gained so much attention. At the same time, another growing part of the financial markets is cryptocurrencies, and it comes to the question: What is the impact of Covid-19 as a shock on crypto markets? This study is the first attempt to...

Although real integration conceptually plays an important role for the comovement of international equity markets, documenting this link empirically has proven challenging. We construct a new dataset of theory-guided, relevant measures of bilateral trade in final and intermediate goods and...

In this paper, we analyse the herding behaviour of two types of cryptocurrencies, referred to as "black/dirty" and "green/clean" based on their energy usage levels. Empirical results reveal that herding generally exists only in the dirty crypto markets, and is more significant in down markets....