While the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on lives and livelihoods are well understood, we know little about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political and economic crises to assess what we can learn from the...

This paper evaluates the effect of all European economic news releases to the US financial markets, for the main crisis period from June 2007 up to October 2011. Evaluation concerns Sharpe ratios, as well as magnitude and frequency of volatility jumps for the periods before and after a news...

We examine the impact of international monetary policy and professionals' announcements on WTI crude oil futures. The methodology is an event and case study. The event study refers to an analysis of each category of events, while the case study refers to the selection of a particular time...

In this paper, we study the impact of Greek government-debt crisis events on European financial markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. We examine the effect of three categories of Greek government-debt crisis events in realized correlation and correlation jumps of government bonds,...