In this paper, we examine in a systematic manner how investors react to the sentiment of instant ESG news. Instead of acquiring proprietary ESG news or events datasets directly from specific ESG data providers, we extract fresh ESG news directly from a plethora of raw news articles. We showcase...

This paper explores the asymmetric connectedness of systemic risk between the oil and global stock markets in both the time and frequency domains. To do so, we introduce time-varying parametric vector autoregressive (TVP-VAR) spillover index models and implied volatility indices to examine risk...

In the blockchain world, proof-of-work is the dominant protocol mechanism that determines the consensus of the ledger. The hashrate, a measure of the computational power directed toward securing a blockchain through proof-of-work consensus, is a fundamental measure of preventing various attacks....

This study employs a fxed-efects model to investigate the holiday efect in the cryptocurrency market, using trading data for the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization on Coinmarketcap.com from January 1, 2017 to July 1, 2022. The results indicate that returns on cryptocurrencies...

The credit bubble experienced by the Irish residential and financial sector immediately prior to the global financial crisis (GFC) was one of the largest experienced across contemporary western economies. The Irish property market had witnessed a significant increase in activity as the economy...