Since their surge in the last decade cryptocurrencies have gained considerable attention in financial markets, and in academic research. Scholars and practitioners are showing interest in the role of cryptocurrencies as part of investors' risk management strategies. Understanding how the returns...

This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...