As digital assets and decentralized finance rapidly evolve, the integration of the financial system and virtual worlds (increasingly referred to as the metaverse), is expected to gain impetus. The metaverse promise to be a critical use-case for decentralized finance – a financial field that...

As digital assets and decentralized finance rapidly evolve, the integration of the financial system and virtual worlds (increasingly referred to as the metaverse), is expected to gain impetus. The metaverse promise to be a critical use-case for decentralized finance – a financial field that...

This paper conducts a large-scale multi-country longitudinal study and examines the extent that firms are exposed to commodity price risk in 23 OCED countries. An industry analysis reveals that all industries are significantly exposed to commodity price movement ranging between 8-10% except for...