The emission trading scheme (ETS) provides a market mechanism to mitigate carbon emissions and has been introduced in many countries. Its fundamental idea is to make carbon emissions costly. Consequently, firms undertaking cross-border expansions may have to consider this extra cost when...

Green finance has been treated as an important tool in the transformation process to low-carbon economy; however, it still remains a question whether the development of green finance could offer carbon savings, or inversely lead to more carbon debts. Based on panel data of 30 provincial...

Using the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper studies the impact of regional cooperation agreements (RCAs) on international tourism based on the Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences regression approach (PSM-DID). This paper also quantifies...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the global financial system and caused great turmoil. Facing unprecedented risks in the markets, people have increasing needs to find a safe haven for their investments. Given that the nature of this crisis is a combination of multiple problems, it is...

This paper introduces a multi-layer network approach to explore risk contagions in a sample of top energy firms in the world. Large energy companies play a very important role in the international energy market. Mapping their responses to different types of shocks provides profound implications...

We augment the HAR model with additional information channels to forecast realized volatility of WTI futures prices. These channels include stock markets, sentiment indices, commodity and FX markets, and text-based Google indices. We then apply four differing machine learning techniques to...

We examine the predictive value of expected skewness of oil returns for the realized volatility using monthly data from 1859:11 to 2023:04. We utilize a quantile predictive regression model, which is able to accommodate nonlinearity and structural breaks. In-sample results show that the...

We investigate price effects after one-day abnormal returns during crises in US, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Brazilian stock markets, using the ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, t-tests, the modified cumulative abnormal return approach, regression analysis with dummy variables, and the trading simulation...