This study investigates herd effects in 101 cryptocurrencies during the period from January 2015 to June 2020. The results confirm the existence of herding behavior in the cryptocurrency market for the entire sample and show that herding asymmetry is present during both bullish and bearish...

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on stock market liquidity of China and four worst hit countries by the pandemic. Using daily data for the stock market illiquidity spanning over July 1, 2019 to July 10, 2020 and the data for new cases and deaths over the period from December 31, 2019...

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on stock market liquidity of China and four worst hit countries by the pandemic. Using daily data for the stock market illiquidity spanning over July 1, 2019 to July 10, 2020 and the data for new cases and deaths over the period from December 31, 2019...

Excessive accumulation of foreign exchange reserves has emerged as an incredible monetary tool particularly after the East Asian crisis of 1997 which somehow seems able not only to stimulate economy but also to stabilize most vulnerable variables like exchange rate, debts and deficits. However...

The mutual funds' returns, inter alia, are dependent on fund managers' performance. This makes human capital efficiency very central for consistent risk-adjusted performance. The persistence in performance becomes more critical during periods of high turbulence, like the one we are experiencing...

Using annual panel data of 126 developing countries over the period from 1970 to 2016, this study investigates effects of remitted funds' volatility and consumption on financial development. Our results, after controlling for endogeneity, document a significant adverse impact of remittances'...

Using data of the constituents of the MSCI USA ESG leader index, this study investigates the herding behavior in the US ESG stocks over the period from January 03, 2007 to September 30, 2020. Our results reveal a significant herding behavior in the US ESG leader stocks. Our findings also show...

Using two-stage instrumental variable technique and two-step system GMM approach, we provide empirical evidence on impact of income, asset, and funding diversifications on the cost and profit efficiency of the US commercial banks over the period from 2002 to 2019. Our results show that funding...

Using the daily data covering both the first and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic over the period from March 3, 2020, to February 12, 2021, this study documents a strong positive comovement between implied volatility indices and two proxies of the COVID-19 fear. However, in all the cases, the...