Investors' expectations of market volatility, captured by the VIX (the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index - also known as the quot;investor fear gaugequot;), affects the expected returns of US equities in two ways. Firstly, the VIX is a priced-factor in a five-factor model of...

We examine a sample of corporate inversions from 1993 to 2015 by firms active in the U.S. markets and find that shareholders experience positive abnormal returns in the short-run. In the long-run, inversions have a deleterious effect on shareholder wealth. The form of the inversion and...

This paper examines the effect of financialisation of futures markets has on the relationship between crude oil futures and equities by using the VAR-DCC-GARCH model. Specifically, by accounting for the systematic patterns of commodity price volatility, namely, seasonality and maturity effects...

This paper examines the recency bias and overreaction in the NFL betting market from 2003 to 2017. Consistent with the recency bias, bettors are more likely to bet on teams who have won previous outcomes. We add to the literature and find that the magnitude of prior wins and losses in the...

This letter investigates trading activities around episodes of attentional shift towards climate change to infer the impact of investor attention on stock trading. We use the Abnormal Search Volume Index (ASVI) from Google Trends as an ex ante measure capturing investor attentional shift towards...