The price of cryptocurrency Bitcoin has risen sharply over the past ten years, with many investors adding Bitcoin to their portfolios, benefitting from price increases and diversifying their investments. But is Bitcoin suitable for this purpose? This Weekly Report examines the extent to which...

Our study collected and synthetized the existing knowledge on portfolio diversification, hedge, and safe-haven properties in cryptocurrency investments. We sampled 146 studies published in journals ranked in the Association of Business Schools 2021 journals list, considering all fields of...

Der Kurs der Kryptowährung Bitcoin ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren enorm gestiegen. Viele Anleger*innen haben inzwischen Bitcoin in ihr Portfolio aufgenommen, um von dem Kursanstieg zu profitieren und ihre Anlagen zu diversifizieren. Doch eignet sich die Kryptowährung dazu? Dieser...

The price of cryptocurrency Bitcoin has risen sharply over the past ten years, with many investors adding Bitcoin to their portfolios, benefitting from price increases and diversifying their investments. But is Bitcoin suitable for this purpose? This Weekly Report examines the extent to which...

This study investigates systemic risk, return patterns, and diversification within the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing data-centric approaches and the ARMA-GARCH vine copula-based conditional value-at-risk (CoVaR) model. By comparing three investment...

Der Kurs der Kryptowährung Bitcoin ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren enorm gestiegen. Viele Anleger*innen haben inzwischen Bitcoin in ihr Portfolio aufgenommen, um von dem Kursanstieg zu profitieren und ihre Anlagen zu diversifizieren. Doch eignet sich die Kryptowährung dazu? Dieser...

This study investigates the impact of transaction costs on the performance differential between equal-weighted portfolios (EWPs) and value-weighted portfolios (VWPs). Employing a comprehensive dataset of 181 stocks from 1970 to 2023, we utilize paired two-sample tests to identify statistically...

This study investigates the presence and variation of home bias across different hierarchical levels in German men’s football. Based on an extensive dataset comprising 357,530 matches from the 2023/2024 season—collected via a Python script—the analysis includes match outcomes, attendance...

We investigate the phenomenon of home bias in scientific citations, where researchers disproportionately cite work from their own country. We develop a benchmark for expected citations based on the relative size of countries, defining home bias as deviations from this norm. Our findings reveal...

The home bias is a well-documented phenomenon highlighting how administrative borders hinder economic transactions. This paper estimates the magnitude of China's provincial border effect using inter-provincial and intra-provincial trade data, with a particular focus on the role of trust in...

This research explores the interdependence within the international logistics sector among 17 nations, utilizing a quantile-based technique to assess the transmission of returns. By analyzing daily data from DataStream spanning from 1 June 2016, to 12 August 2024, we apply the Quantile Vector...

This study employs a variety of machine learning models and a wide range of economic and financial variables to enhance the forecasting accuracy of the Korean won-U.S. dollar (KRW/USD) exchange rate and the U.S. and Korean stock market returns. We construct international asset allocation...

We analyse changes in the National Football League (NFL) due to ghost games in 2020. The home bias disappears as expected. This also applies to semi-ghost games with significantly fewer spectators than regular games and to referee decisions regarding penalties.

This research explores the interdependence within the international logistics sector among 17 nations, utilizing a quantile-based technique to assess the transmission of returns. By analyzing daily data from DataStream spanning from 1 June 2016, to 12 August 2024, we apply the Quantile Vector...

We assess Euro Area financial integration correcting for the role of "onshore offshore financial centers" (OOFCs) within the Euro Area. The OOFCs of Luxembourg, Ireland, and the Netherlands serve dual roles as both hubs of investment fund intermediation and centers of securities issuance by...

Investment funds hold a disproportionately larger fraction of domestic relative to foreign stocks. Stock market development and familiarity (language and distance) are considered key determinants for home bias. The literature neglects however that investors often invest in foreign funds...

Our study collected and synthetized the existing knowledge on portfolio diversification, hedge, and safe-haven properties in cryptocurrency investments. We sampled 146 studies published in journals ranked in the Association of Business Schools 2021 journals list, considering all fields of...

This paper aims to explore the role of financial literacy, risk preference, and home bias in Minangkabau ethnic SME financing decisions, and whether their financing pattern follow the pecking order theory. The theoretical framework model was developed to determine the impact of financial...

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from Harvard, but also nearby Massachusetts Institute of...

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from Harvard, but also nearby Massachusetts Institute of...

In the presence of scale economies, industries are incentivized to localize production. Geography is key in determining where that localization happens. The Home Market Effect (HME) predicts that locations with the largest demand are the host. Yet, since its origin by Krugman (1980), the...

We investigate gender-specific local biases among investors in the German equity crowdfunding market. Based on data from the crowdfunding platform Companisto, we find that domestic investors favour ventures that are geographically closer to their own place of residence and that they are biased...

We investigate the extent to which investors exhibit carbon home bias: disproportionate investment in carbon-intensive firms from the home market. We utilize a comprehensive stock-level holdings dataset of European investors to understand the relationship between carbon home bias, divestment and...