This paper contributes a shred of quantitative evidence to the embryonic literature as well as existing empirical evidence regarding spillover risks among cryptocurrency markets. By using VAR (Vector Autoregressive Model)-SVAR (Structural Vector Autoregressive Model) Granger causality and...

Green bonds are an innovative and rapidly growing fixed-income asset class that have significant potential in channelling funds towards climate and environmentally friendly investment projects, catalysing the transition to a more sustainable economy. This paper revisits the green bond premium...

Applying a GARCH-S analysis to a daily dataset of eight cryptocurrencies, along with seven equity market indices for advanced countries, and seven equity market indices for emerging economies, for June 2018–June 2021, we find that cryptocurrencies have higher probability of crash risk than...

Vietnam used to be lauded as the coronavirus fighting model since the pandemic began. Vietnam kept the virus at bay by imposing strictly localized lockdowns to deal with the emergence of a deadly new variant might. Using daily data for 63 provinces over the period from January 2021 to July 2021...

We evidence that cryptocurrencies possess a significantly higher probability of crash risk than equity indices, albeit such cryptocurrency market crashes are typically of shorter duration, while possessing an increased probability of acting a source of instability through which can pass through...

In the context of the debate on cryptocurrencies as the ‘digital gold’, this study explores the nexus between the Bitcoin and US oil returns by employing a rich set of parametric and non-parametric approaches. We examine the dependence structure of the US oil market and Bitcoin through...

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...

Voluminous vaccine campaigns are used globally since the COVID-19 pandemic owes devastating mortality and destructively unprecedented consequences on different aspects of economies. Notwithstanding different approaches to measure the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in clinical medicines, this...