We examine whether investors herd in their decision to order new or scrap old vessels in the drybulk market. Our paper is seminal as herd behavior in the shipping markets has not been previously investigated. We decompose herding into unintentional and intentional, and test for herd behavior...

This paper studies the impact of modelling time-varying variances of stock returns in terms of risk measurement and extreme risk spillover. Using a general class of regime-dependent models, we find that volatility can be disaggregated into distinct components: a persistent stable process with...

This paper reproduces the performance of two international shipping stock indexes and two physical shipping indexes by investing only in stock portfolios that our algorithms determine. In our analysis, we use daily stock data and address the index-tracking problem with the differential evolution...

The aim of this paper is to use an alternative measure of the efficiency of the different shipping industries, i.e. VLCC/ULCC (250 000 dwt), Suezmax (140 000 dwt), Aframax (80 000 dwt), which are the main carriers of crude oil, and Handymax (40 000 dwt), which carries the vast majority of clean...