Chapter 1. Market-Timing Skills in the Aftermath of COVID-19 Outbreak: Evidence from Islamic Funds -- Chapter 2. The Relationship Between US Stock, Commodity and Virtual Markets During COVID-19 Forced Crisis -- Chapter 3. Towards a Better Comprehension of Tourism Crisis in the Era of Covid-19 --...

We investigate, for the first time, the empirical drivers of the COVID-19 cross-country mortality rates at a macroeconomic level. The intensity of the pandemic (number of infected people), the demographic structure (proportion of people age 65 or above) and the openness degree (number of...

On 12 March 2020, the sharp fell of U.S. crude oil price to 30 dollars was explained by the outspreads of coronavirus pandemic and the OPEC's inability to reach a production quota agreement. We employ the structural VAR model with time-varying coefficients and stochastic volatility (TVP-SVAR...

Using second generation Panel Unit Root Tests (PURT), panel cointegration tests and panel Granger causality tests we find that although the financial crisis may have increased risk aversion for investors, it did not make disappearing speculative behaviours on structured credit markets. On the...