This paper investigates whether countries' investments in financial inclusion, beyond what their economic capacity would predict, help mitigate gender and income-group gaps in financial opportunities. We construct a novel index, the Abnormal Financial Inclusion Index (AbFII), as the residuals...

Overwhelming food waste impacted society and the environment. One of the initiatives to mitigate this problem is to separate the food waste and utilise it for alternative purposes. However, few studies have examined universities' role in separating female residential students' food waste, even...

Mobile investment has been introduced with technological advancements and the enhancement of mobile device functions. However, relatively limited studies have been particularly focused on the determinants of adoption intention on mobile investment. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring the...

This study examined the capabilities of six cryptocurrencies as a hedge and safe haven against the stock indices and foreign exchange rate in the East Asia-5 markets. According, MGARCH-DCC was adopted and implemented in data collection processes together with Rathner and Chiu regression method,...

We propose an asymptotic N(0, 1) inferential strategy to test for volatility spillover between markets consisting of multiple sectors. First, we use nonparametric kernel method to derive test statistics that assign flexible weight to each lag order and are able to check a growing number of lags...