We study the impact on a country’s economy of sharing a direct land border with a country experiencing conflict. Through analysing sixty-three major episodes of regional instability during the period between 1990 and 2016 by using panel data methods applied to unrestricted error correction...

We show that the statistical properties of gold are negatively correlated with equities and that including Gold in a portfolio will provide diversification benefits. As there is no consensus on the proportion of gold that should be included in a strategic portfolio allocation we propose a visual...

We propose new Unconditional, Independence and Conditional Coverage VaR-forecast backtests for the case of annuity pricing under a Bayesian framework that significantly minimise the direct and indirect effects of $p$-hacking or other biased outcomes in decision-making, in general. As a...

When did finance stop thinking about behaviour? The ascendency of the "rational man" model of finance has been strongly influenced by the notion of markets as being akin to natural systems. The question rapidly changes from asking when did finance stop thinking about behaviour to when did...

The substantial growth of the crytocurrency market since 2009 has merited suspicions of bubblelike dynamics attributed to the exceptional price growth and volatility exhibited across associated exchanges. The deep volatility and exponential rise in cryptocurrencies valuations strongly suggest...

The emergence of cryptocurrencies represents a significant innovation in the financial domain, where subsequently, the market has experienced exponential growth. The proliferation of digital assets has captured the attention of investors, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies,...