Slow global economic growth, frequent fluctuations in international financial markets, and increasing wealth disparity have become common concerns facing the globe. Risk prevention and stable economic growth have become the basic requirements for high-quality economic development, and...

This paper puts forward the concept and analytic expression of the environmental pressure index (EPI) for discovering and warning an economic crisis. Empirical researches show, EPI can effectively indicate that the economic crisis occurs or will occur. It is worth noting, EPI can also be applied...

The price of Bitcoin reached its peak a mere few days after the introduction of Bitcoin futures and suffered an 80% loss in the following year. In this paper, we find a significant and negative relationship between the introduction of Bitcoin futures and Bitcoin returns, and an insignificant or...