Using annual panel data of 126 developing countries over the period from 1970 to 2016, this study investigates effects of remitted funds' volatility and consumption on financial development. Our results, after controlling for endogeneity, document a significant adverse impact of remittances'...

This paper investigates the dynamics of the co-movement of GCC stock market returns with global oil market uncertainty, using an ARMA-DCC-EGARCH and time varying Student-t copula models. Empirical results demonstrate that oil uncertainty has significant and time varying impacts on the GCC stock...

This study investigates herd effects in 101 cryptocurrencies during the period from January 2015 to June 2020. The results confirm the existence of herding behavior in the cryptocurrency market for the entire sample and show that herding asymmetry is present during both bullish and bearish...

Using a time-varying spillover approach, we investigate volatility spillovers between natural alternative investments, i.e. timber and water, and a battery of traditional instruments comprising equities, bonds, crude oil, gold, real estate, shipping and currency, for the period...

This paper investigates the day of the week effect in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index over a ten year period divided into two subperiods: 1995-2000 and 2001-2004. Five major indices are also considered: Banking, Insurance, and Miscellaneous for the first subperiod, and FTSE-20 and...