This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...

This paper studies the relationship between industry diversity and economic stability. The economic stability has been estimated using a panel-GARCH model. Our sample consists of US county-level data for the period 2003 to 2017. The results suggest that industry diversity improves economic...

Financial market data are abundant with outliers, and the search for an appropriate extreme value theory (EVT) approach to apply is an endless debate in the statistics of extremes research. This paper uses EVT methods to model the five-year daily all-share total return index (ALSTRI) and the...

The stock markets in developing countries are highly responsive to breaking news and events. Our research explores the impact of economic conditions, financial policies, and politics on the KSE-100 index through daily market news signals. Utilizing simple OLS regression and ARCH/GARCH regression...

Since investors have diverse perspectives and limited information, their expectations can be subjective and prone to inaccuracies. Hence, price fluctuations are influenced by heterogeneous beliefs regarding future expectations, and both surveys and straightforward models can only partially...

While energy risk is increasingly recognized as a new systemic risk, there is limited comprehensive analysis of the risk propagation in regional context. In this paper, we examine oil and natural gas price changes in relation to equity market returns for 24 countries in the European Economic...