A well-documented finding is that explicitly using jumps cannot efficiently enhance the predictability of crude oil price volatility. To address this issue, we find a phenomenon, "momentum of jumps" (MoJ), that the predictive ability of the jump component is persistent when forecasting the oil...

This study investigates the role of oil futures price information on forecasting the US stock market volatility using the HAR framework. In-sample results indicate that oil futures intraday information is helpful to increase the predictability. Moreover, compared to the benchmark model, the...

This paper comprehensively investigates the connection between oil futures volatility and the financial market based on a data-rich and model-rich environment, which contains traditional prediction models, machine learning models, and combination models. The results highlight the efficiency of...

Using daily data of COVID-19 fear index and stock indices of 29 European countries over the period from January 1, 2020 to September 17, 2020, this study finds no evidence of adverse impact of COVID-19 outbreak on European stock markets at the level of full sample nor at European sub-regional...

Using daily data of COVID-19 fear index and stock indices of 29 European countries over the period from January 1, 2020 to September 17, 2020, this study finds no evidence of adverse impact of COVID-19 outbreak on European stock markets at the level of full sample nor at European sub-regional...

While there is a consensus on the expanding importance of the China-Africa economic relationship, there is much more debate on how to portray the relationship. Thus, this study is aimed to examine the impacts of the China-Africa trade and Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of...

An individual's behavior can be determined by the personality traits they possess, which are a description of a set of characteristics that are unique to the individual. Previous analyses have indicated that the Big-5 personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion,...

An individual's behavior can be determined by the personality traits they possess, which are a description of a set of characteristics that are unique to the individual. Previous analyses have indicated that the Big-5 personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion,...