This paper aims to measure the level of economic and financial uncertainty in Turkey. More specifically, it constructs a search-based ‘Turkish Economic and Financial Uncertainty Index' (TEFUI) and employs the real-time monthly Google Trends data to cover the period from January 2004 to...

We examine the role of geopolitical risk in the cross-sectional pricing of cryptocurrencies. We calculate cryptocurrency exposure to changes in the geopolitical risk index and document that coins with the lowest geopolitical beta outperform those with high geopolitical beta. Our findings suggest...

In this paper, we explore whether economic uncertainty differently affects the default risk of Islamic and conventional banks. Using a sample of 568 banks from 20 countries between 2009 and 2018, we use the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) by Ahir et al. (2018) to conduct a study based on a...

We examine the hedging properties of different asset classes as impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We employ wavelet coherence analysis to study the impact of geopolitical risk on various types of securities. We found that different asset classes exhibited unequal risk...

We explore the relationship between two novel Twitter-based measures of economic and market uncertainty and the performance of four major cryptocurrencies. Using a battery of methods - quantile regressions, Granger-causality in distributions using copula functions, and directional predictability...