In times of stress, if the potential demand from asset managers for market liquidity approaches or exceeds dealers' ability to intermediate, it could lead to a precautionary but disruptive dash for cash and may lead central banks to intervene. If the likelihood of such a dash for cash increases...

In this paper we will discuss the relationship among volume, volatility and return momentum in global financial markets. It turns out that when the volatility is large i.e. the difference between the daily high price and the daily low price is large then the trading volume is also large. We also...

Despite momentum's strong historical performance, its returns have large negative skewness and occasionally experiences persistent strings of sharp negative returns, referred as "momentum crashes" in the recent literature. I argue that momentum crashes are due to crowded trades which push prices...

This study conducts a detailed examination of Borsa Istanbul Review (BIR) from 2013 to 2023, employing bibliometric analysis, regression analysis, and structural topic modeling (STM) to explore its scholarly impact, authorship patterns, and thematic evolution. Our bibliometric analysis reveals a...

This essay looks at the bidirectional relationship between financial history and financial economics. It begins by giving a brief history of financial economics by outlining the main topics of interest to financial economists. It then documents and explains the increasing influence of financial...

We test the hypothesis that, when thinking about allocating money to a stock, investors mentally represent the stock by the distribution of its past returns and then evaluate this distribution in the way described by prospect theory. In a simple model of asset prices where some investors think...

Hypothetical stock market investment experiment in six countries reveals that after controlling for the average profit in the whole stock market subjects prefer losing money rather than gaining money as long as their so-called "friends" lose more money. The sad result is that only 8.2% of the...