This study employs a recent national survey of over 1100 British financial firms to ascertain the determinants of financial innovation and their sales success using Logit and generalised Tobit models. We find the likelihood of financial innovation rises with the size of financial firms, employee...

A concern often expressed in relation to cryptocurrencies is their environmental impact associated with increasing electricity consumption which is currently unregulated. To assist researchers and policy makers, we developed a new Index of Cryptocurrency Environmental Attention (ICEA) based on...

The aim of this study is to investigate the volatility spillover connectedness between NFTs attention and financial markets. This paper firstly proposes a new direct proxy for the public's attention in the NFT market: the non-fungible tokens attention index (NFTsAI), based on 590m news stories...

Several common properties shared by cryptocurrencies and precious metals, such as safe haven, hedge and diversification for risk assets, have been wildly discussed since the day Bitcoin was created in 2008. However, no studies have explored whether cryptocurrency market uncertainties can help to...

Based on coverage of over 660m news stories from LexisNexis News & Business between 2015–2021, we provide two new indices around the growing area of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC): the CBDC Uncertainty Index (CBDCUI) and CBDC Attention Index (CBDCAI). We show that both indices spiked...

We develop and make available a new Cryptocurrency Uncertainty Index (UCRY) based on news coverage. Our UCRY Index captures two types of the uncertainty: cryptocurrency price uncertainty (UCRY Price) and cryptocurrency policy uncertainty (UCRY Policy). We show that the constructed index has...