Does the impact to mobility due to state-level lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic affect retail investors’ attention in equity markets? Using Google’s mobility, the lockdown dates, and companies’ Wikipedia page views data, we show that stay-at-home duration increases retail attention....

Few studies have examined the spillover reputational damage of environmental and social (E&S) scandals ex-post. Using an international sample of negative E&S incidents and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across 18 countries, we examine whether heightened E&S risks of acquirers post-incident...

There is a large literature that reports time-specific anomalies in equity markets such as the Monday effect, the January effect and the Halloween effect. This study is the first to report intra-day time-of-day, day-of-week, and month-of-year effects for Bitcoin returns and trading volume. Using...

We find strong evidence that imitation to the leader in an uncertain environment provides short-term early success without enhancing long-term survival. Using a unique setting in cryptocurrencies where Bitcoin has been the centre focus, we define copycats as cryptocurrencies that have a name...

We investigate the price reaction of international listed companies in response to blockchain-related announcements. The average abnormal return based on a sample of 979 firm-announcements is approximately 5% with significantly higher returns for smaller firms and for announcements in late 2017...

Using data on a sample of NYSE stocks and their respective options contract, we examine how option-implied volatility influences liquidity provision on the equities market. Our findings suggest that in the 30-day leading up to an earnings release, implied volatility is negatively associated with...